who is playing bilbo in the hobbit movie?
Norman Bird Martin Freeman Ian Holm
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 Bakshi 's film sparked enough interest in Tolkien 's work to provoke not only an animated TV special produced by the Rankin @-@ Bass animation studio based on The Return of the King , but a complete adaptation of The Lord of the Rings on BBC Radio . For this broadcast , Michael Graham Cox and Peter Woodthorpe reprised their roles of Boromir and Gollum , respectively . 

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 Peter Jackson also directed three films based on Tolkien 's 1937 novel The Hobbit , a prequel to the Lord of the Rings novels . The first film , The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey , was released on 12 December 2012 , the second film , The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug , was released on 13 December 2013 , and the third film , The Hobbit : The Battle of the Five Armies , was released on 17 December 2014 . Several actors from The Lord of the Rings , including Ian McKellen , Andy Serkis , Hugo Weaving , Elijah Wood , Ian Holm ( as older Bilbo ) , Christopher Lee , Cate Blanchett and Orlando Bloom reprised their roles . 

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 Alongside many other British and Irish actors , Nesbitt was cast in Peter Jackson 's three @-@ part film The Hobbit , as the dwarf Bofur . Nesbitt had not read J.R.R. Tolkien 's novel but accepted the role immediately . As the film was scheduled to take over 12 months to make in New Zealand , Nesbitt 's wife and daughters moved with him , and his daughters were enrolled in a New Zealand school . Filming commenced in March 2011 . The first part , The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey , was released in December 2012 , the second part , The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug , in December 2013 , and the third and final part , The Hobbit : The Battle of the Five Armies , in December 2014 . 

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 The film contains several cameos from well @-@ known actors and other celebrities , made possible by Hamer 's high standing as a director . His previous film was the international production Factotum , based on the novel by Charles Bukowski , starring Matt Dillon , Lili Taylor , and Marisa Tomei . Some of the appearances are relatively brief ; Nørby , for instance , is on screen for less than three minutes , while the well @-@ known Norwegian entertainer Trond Viggo Torgersen appears for only 59 seconds . Before the film 's première on Boxing Day 2007 , a pre @-@ screening was held for journalists on 22 December . This was followed by dinner , attended by all the protagonists , at the restaurant Valkyrien in Oslo , where Odd Horten is also a regular customer in the film . 

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 The film is a time @-@ travel adventure in which Ba 'al travels back to 1939 to create an alternate timeline in which Earth never establishes their Stargate program , and to take control of the Goa 'uld Empire . The only people to remember the truth , the SG @-@ 1 team attempts to reinstate the original timeline . The film stars the main cast of the show 's last season , with the return of Richard Dean Anderson as Jack O 'Neill . 
