He's in there, he makes comments, he makes jokes about the characters. The Hobbit, no, The Hobbit is an adventure story that's told in the first person by Tolkien. '' In Lord of The Rings they are saving the world, everything is at stake. Like the books, the tone of Jackson's The Hobbit will also be different to that of The Lord of the Rings, he says. So it was comfortable to be back with the Gandalf that we liked.'' ''I, like Peter, we both preferred Gandalf the Grey because he's on a much more human level, he is not quite driven as the 'White Commander' who comes in to save the world. Important for Sir Ian was that the Gandalf of The Hobbit is Gandalf ''the Grey'', rather than the more warrior-like Gandalf ''the White'' of the second and third Rings movies. The director, of course, the producers, the script writers, the lighting cameramen, the operators, the props people, they are all back from 12 years ago. Although there are lot of new actors, the crew - they're very familiar. ''A lot of it's the same and some things are a bit different. Of all the actors in The Hobbit who are reprising their roles from the trilogy, he has the biggest part. Throughout the filming of The Lord of the Rings, Sir Ian spent months at a time in New Zealand. 'The fans'll love it!' But on the whole, you've got to ask permission.''
''I remember that photograph, and I showed it to Peter, and I said, 'Do you think we could put this up?' 'Oh, yes!', he said. It was one of the first peeks of behind-the-scenes on the film. And very sophisticated it is, too, he's got film crews and everything.''Įarly in The Hobbit Sir Ian posted and tweeted a photograph of himself dressed as Gandalf and wearing 3-D glasses. I didn't think up the word 'blog', but I was sending regular reports from the set, around the world, with the huge support and approval of Peter Jackson, who now does his own blogging. ''In fact, I think I invented blogging, 'cause I kept an online diary,'' he says. Back in 2000 when blogs were in their infancy, he was the only Lord of the Rings actor to write about the film online and he revealed a few details that were unavailable elsewhere. Sir Ian, 73, was a bit of a pioneer when it came to using the internet for his involvement in The Lord of the Rings. I wouldn't do anything to harm them, but a little bit of honesty doesn't come amiss.''
But I'm totally supportive of these films, I think they're absolutely marvellous. He goes on to explain: ''Does that mean to say, on my dying - when I'm dying - I can't say I didn't like what I did in that film? It's nonsense.
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