Between now and Christmas, movie-goers might think they've wandered into a library thanks to all the literary classics which are due to hit screens.
The Hobbit,
On the Road, and
Les Miserables are just a few of the book-to-Hollywood adaptations we'll be seeing (also watch for
The Life of Pi,
Lincoln,
The Silver Linings Playbook, and
Anna Karenina--among others I might have missed. Baz Luhrmann's production of
The Great Gatsby was deemed unfit for holiday consumption and moved to the action-hero season of summer). I'm looking forward to seeing each of them when they eventually make their way to Butte. To whet your anticipation, here's a gallery of posters.
The Hobbit is stuffed full of characters and so marketers decided to give each of them their own poster:
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| Martin Freeman as Bilbo |
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| Ian McKellen as Gandalf |
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| Cate Blanchett as Galadriel |
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| Ken Stott as Balin |
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| William Kircher as Bifur |
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| James Nesbitt as Bofur |
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| Stephen Hunter as Bombur |
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| Graham McTavish as Dwalin |
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| Dean O'Gorman as Fili |
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| Peter Hambleton as Gloin |
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| Aidan Turner as Kili |
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| Jed Brophy as Nori |
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| John Callen as Oin |
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| Adam Brown as Ori |
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| Richard Armitage as Thorin |
And my favorite character (at least in the movies):
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| Andy Serkis as Gollum |
The posters for
On the Road take an identical tack by devoting themselves to one character at a time and adding pithy quotes ("I love love," etc.):
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| Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty |
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| Sam Riley as Sal Paradise |
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| Kristen Stewart as Marylou |
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| Tom Sturridge as Carlo Marx |
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| Alice Braga as Terry |
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| Kirsten Dunst as Camille |
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| Danny Morgan as Ed Dunkel |
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| Vigggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee |
At least Les Miserables saves paper by giving us two characters per poster (somewhere in Oregon, a tree is breathing a sigh of relief):
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Sacha Baron Cohen as Thenardier and
Helena Bonham Carter as Madame Thenardier |
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Amanda Seyfried as Cosette and
Eddie Redmayne as Marius |
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