Top cast:Carlyle Blackwell,Kate Winston,William H. West
Director:Francisco Oliver
Genre:Adventure
Region:Germany
Year:2010
Storyline:The script for this new version, by Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris, substituted capitalists (an enigmatic, big-business, multi-national corporation called Manchurian Global, represented, according to Demme, by the giant 21st century companies of Halliburton, Bechtel or the Carlyle Group) as the villains.The awakened Smaug aunted Bilbo to reveal himself, and also sensed the golden Ring:Thief.I smell you.I hear your breath.I feel your air.Where are you? Where are you? Come, now, don't be shy.Step into the light.Hmm.There is something about you.Something you carry.Something made of gold.But far more precious.(Voice of the Ring: "Precious! Precious!") There you are - Thief in he Shadows.At first, Bilbo attempted to flatter Smaug: "I did not come to steal from you, O Smaug, the Unassessably Wealthy.The next film was a reboot also, an expensive blockbuster itledMan of Steel (2013), directed by Zack Snyder - on the 75th anniversary of the DC Comics hero (from 1938).To answer his critics, director Griffith made a follow-up film, the magnificent four story epic about human intolerance titledIntolerance (1916).