The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will run for two hours and forty minutes according to Peter Jackson.
The first instalment of The Hobbit trilogy will hit the big screen in December after a nine year wait to return to Middle Earth.
Speaking to Empire the filmmaker said: "It's looking like it's going to be about ten minutes shorter than Fellowship was. So it's going to be officially our shortest Middle-earth yet.
"I mean, Fellowship was just under three hours and this is about two hours, 40 minutes at the moment."
The Hobbit was originally set to be split into just two films but over the summer it was announced that it was in fact going to be a trilogy like The Lord of the Rings.
This will be the first directorial outing for Jackson since The Lovely Bones at the beginning of 2010.
Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Ian McKellan, Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, Evangaline Lily, Cate Blanchett and Elijah Wood are all on the cast list for the film.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is released 14th December.
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