![]() ![]() See the end of this piece for a table with all the films.): Here’s what film lengths plotted against page count looks like for the 54 films in my sample (this isn’t a super rigorous sample I tried to get a good mix of the more popular young adult series, high fantasy novels, a few classics and several contemporary thrillers. It’s tricky to find an authoritative word count, which would be ideal.įor books that were split into two films - think “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay,” “The Hobbit,” and “Twilight: Breaking Dawn” - I found the last chapter used in the first film and split the books there. Page counts aren’t always the same among editions, but we’re just looking for an estimate of length. I then found the page count for each book using the top-selling edition on Amazon. I pulled the run time, according to IMDb, of 54 popular films released since 2000 that were based on novels. Indeed, compared with other recent films adapted from works of fiction, “The Hobbit” movies are outliers. One sentence! And the stone giants were never heard from again! “Bilbo … saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another for a game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed along the trees far below, or splintered into little bits with a bang … they could hear the giants guffawing and shouting all over the mountainsides.” ![]() Take, for instance, a sequence from the first film - “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” (2012) - in which the traveling party is beset by stone giants having an elaborate, and presumably very expensive, CGI rock ’em sock ’em robots battle.īased on my estimation, the scene runs about 2 minutes, 12 seconds. ![]() In other words, the filmmakers have wrung all they could out of the source material. ![]() Tolkien that, according to my paperback copy, numbers 293 pages. The trilogy of films - 474 minutes of orcs and elves - is based on a single novel by J.R.R. The third and final installment of “The Hobbit” series hits theaters Wednesday, and it’ll mark the last time fans will get the chance to explore Middle Earth for the conceivable future. ![]()
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