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Second Opinion – Tolkien (2019)

May 8, 2019 by Robert Kojder

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Tolkien, 2019. Directed by Dome Karukoski Starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Genevieve O’Reilly, Colm Meaney, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Harry Gilby, Laura Donnelly, Derek Jacobi, Pam Ferris, Mimi Keene, Ty Tennant, Aaron Neil, Holly Dempster, Jack Riley, Nia Gwynne, and Owen Teale SYNOPSIS: Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Aaron Neil, Anthony Boyle, Colm Meaney, Craig Roberts, Derek Jacobi, Dome Karukoski, Genevieve O'Reilly, Harry Gilby, Holly Dempster, Jack Riley, Laura Donnelly, Lily Collins, Mimi Keene, Nia Gwynne, Nicholas Hoult, Owen Teale, Pam Ferris, Patrick Gibson, Tolkien, Tom Glynn-Carney, Ty Tennant

Movie Review – Tolkien (2019)

May 3, 2019 by Tom Beasley

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Tolkien, 2019. Directed by Dome Karukoski. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney, Derek Jacobi, Colm Meaney, Pam Ferris and Craig Roberts. SYNOPSIS: The story of J. R. R. Tolkien during his university years, and the wartime experiences that would shape his Lord of the Rings novels. There seems to be […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Anthony Boyle, Colm Meaney, Craig Roberts, Derek Jacobi, Dome Karukoski, Lily Collins, Nicholas Hoult, Pam Ferris, Patrick Gibson, Tolkien, Tom Glynn-Carney

Exclusive Interview – Tolkien stars Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney and Anthony Boyle on friendship and chemistry

May 3, 2019 by Tom Beasley

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Tom Beasley sits down with three of the cast members of Tolkien to chat about forming the film’s crucial central ‘fellowship’… With Peter Jackson’s epic Middle Earth saga now consigned to cinema history, fans of J. R. R. Tolkien may be a little bereft when it comes to the cinema. That’s set to change this […]

Filed Under: Exclusives, Interviews, Movies Tagged With: Anthony Boyle, Dome Karukoski, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Gibson, Tolkien, Tom Glynn-Carney

Exclusive Interview – Tolkien director Dome Karukoski on his English language debut and the Tolkien family response

April 30, 2019 by Tom Beasley

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Tom Beasley sits down with Finnish director Dome Karukoski to chat about his new biopic Tolkien, in which Nicholas Hoult plays the iconic fantasy author… The man behind The Lord of the Rings is finally getting the biopic treatment. With Skins star and current X-Man Nicholas Hoult in the lead role, Tolkien examines the friendships […]

Filed Under: Exclusives, Interviews, Movies, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Dome Karukoski, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Nicholas Hoult, Tolkien

Nicholas Hoult is J.R.R. Tolkien in first trailer for biopic Tolkien

February 12, 2019 by Amie Cranswick

Fox Searchlight Pictures has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming biopic Tolkien. Directed by Dome Karukoski, the film stars Nicholas Hoult as J.R.R. Tolkien and explores The Lord of the Rings author’s formative years during the outbreak of World War I and his relationship with his future wife Edith Bratt (Lily Collins); watch it […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Anthony Boyle, Colm Meaney, Craig Roberts, Derek Jacobi, Dome Karukoski, Genevieve O'Reilly, Laura Donnelly, Lily Collins, Nicholas Hoult, Pam Ferris, Patrick Gibson, Tolkien, Tom Glynn-Carney

Colm Meaney joins the cast of Tolkien

October 13, 2017 by Ricky Church

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Colm Meaney has joined the cast of the upcoming J.R.R. Tolkien biopic, Tolkien. He joins X-Men: Apocalypse’s Nicholas Hoult and To The Bones‘ Lily Collins in the film with, Dome Karukoski directing from a script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. Per Deadline, Meaney will portray Father Francis, one of Tolkien’s school teachers. Tolkien will […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Ricky Church Tagged With: Colm Meaney, Dome Karukoski, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lily Collins, Nicholas Hoult, Tolkien

Dome Karukoski to direct J.R.R. Tolkien biopic

July 25, 2017 by Gary Collinson

According to Deadline, Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski (The Home of Dark Butterflies) is set to direct Tolkien, a biopic of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien. The project is being produced by Chernin Entertainment for Fox Searchlight, and is based on a script from David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. The film […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Dome Karukoski, J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien

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