Ian McKellen Can’t Kick the Hobbit
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?Note: The real news is that Sir Ian McKellen has announced on his website (really, mentioned, but every nerd site everywhere is reporting it so it might has well have been a press release) that The Hobbit will start filming in New Zealand in July, and will take a year to film the two planned movies. However, since director Guillermo del Toro and producer Peter Jackson have yet to select/announce a young Bilbo, I wonder if this production date is wishful thinking on someone’s part.
Really, it doesn’t matter. I just wanted to be able to use the horrible headline “Ian McKellen Can’t Kick The Hobbit,” so that everyone who uses it after — AND THEY WILL — will have to bow down before me and hideous pun mastery. And so I have.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.