First Behind-the-Scenes Footage from THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG
Those who purchased a copy of The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey on DVD or blu-ray last week were given a code to participate in a live event promoting Desolation of Smaug, the second film in the Hobbit trilogy. The event featured Peter Jackson and other special guests along with behind-the-scenes footage and concept art from The Desolation of Smaug. Warner Bros has now allowed six minutes from the event to be released online so check it out below.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit… J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, being directed by Peter Jackson as three separate movies, is set in Middle-Earth 60 years before Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in a trilogy ten years ago. The films, with screenplays by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson, were shot consecutively in digital 3D using the latest cameras. The Hobbit follows the journey of Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug.
A note from Jackson:
Thanks to everyone who tuned into our Live Event last week. I’ve never done anything like that before, and I was pretty nervous.
Hope it was ok.
If you saw it, it was a pretty accurate picture of what life is like at the moment. Jabez and I sit in that editing room all day, every day, editing the second Hobbit movie, and we actually start on the third next week! A lot of that movie was shot nearly a year ago, so I’m looking forward to seeing it come alive, shot by shot in the cutting room. It’s like assembling one of those complex 2000 piece jigsaw puzzles.
For us, this is really the being of 2013, so I look forward to posting a bunch more stuff as we work through the year.
I think that an edited version of the Live Event is being made available over at the official Hobbit site, and Warner Bros have kindly let me post a 6 min excerpt here, to give everyone who missed it a sense of what it was like.
Cheers,
Peter J