Peter Jackson discusses 'The Hobbit'

[Woodland_Creek]

I know I'm 12 years late but the interviewer asked some really great questions

[SuperGamli]

Great interview and a brilliant interviewer i might add, ask smart and interesting questions...Hard to come by today

[jtr]

The Hobbit was like a Disney LOTR, the dwarf popping his arms out of the barrel and spinning to hit orcs was ridiculous. What made the LOTR so good was its realism.

[MeTaLMIliTIa]

Loved the hobbit, however I would really enjoy miniatures opposed to CG architecture. It really bugged me to see so much CG when I first saw it because I wasn't expecting it at all. Gollum looked amazing though

[bushpilot]

Peter Jackson is amazing! It'd be a dream come true to make a movie with him.

[m_f_luder]

This was an excellent interview. Well done.

[Progesteroni]

Really nice to hear such interesting and well-thought-out questions compared to the usual crap in movie promotion interviews.

[KilliaM]

Amazing movie

Peter Jackson THANKS for all my favorite movies!

[lucie]

it is true, i watched imax, first time watching 3d, very comfortable and amazing, hobbit 3 is more than 2 hrs, my eyes were not tired, no strain, just amazing, feel very much like reaching out to the images...so near

[undercoverson]

brilliant interview, great job john horn.

[Shadowkiss]

I absolutely loved The Hobbit, it is beautifully done in every way. Can't wait for the 2 next movies. The 48 frames didn't make much of a difference for me one way or the other.

[NineteenHundred]

I can't wait to watch all 3 extended Hobbit movies, then watch all 3 extended LOTR movies after.

[leonievogelsang]

I think Peter Jackson himself is a Hobbit^^

[gon_trek]

Long Live Miniature architecture and landscapes.... Just as the CGI facial expressions dont come close (though ever closer) to real human being expressions, so do physical edges and shadows look far more realistic than cgi objects.. even with all the trickery involved to make them look the appropriate size

[CoryMinx]

he’s given complicated question after question — he looks exhausted

[lotrhobbit]

Peter, we want to see those deleted scenes, unused for the Extended edition of the Lord of the Rings : 

- Fellowship of the Ring : additional footage from the Battle of the Last Alliance (and maybe add Lee Pace’s Thranduil into it), an extended Council of Elrond (dialogue from the Council of Elrond, such as Gandalf explaining how Sauron forged the One Ring)

- The Two Towers : Arwen and Elrond visiting Galadriel at Lothlórien, Conversation between Elrond and Arwen in a library in Rivendell, after Arwen decides to wait for Aragorn. Elrond leaves saying “You gave away your life’s grace. I cannot protect you anymore”

- Return of the King : further epilogue footage, with endings for Legolas and Gimli, Éowyn and Faramir's wedding and Aragorn's death and funeral. Also, to give context for Wormtongue killing Saruman, and Legolas in turn killing Wormtongue, it was to be revealed Wormtongue poisoned Théodred. The final scene cut was Aragorn having his armour fitted for the Battle of the Black Gate by the trilogy's armourers, which was the final scene filmed during principal photography, and others.

We know you stated that you would like to include some of these unused scenes in a future "Ultimate Edition" home video release, also including out-takes.

It would be great if you would be able to revisit the cut of all 6 movies in the near future, do an "ultimate cut" of the 6 movies and integrate those scenes I mentioned back in the movies (instead of deleted scenes). You would also be able to reshoot the "Bilbo finding the Ring" scene from Fellowship of the ring, replace gollum from the shadowy scene in the Mines of Moria (from Fellowship), add more Balrog vs Gandalf fight (as you wished in the first place when you thought about the sequence but you didn't have the means and budget for it at the time), integrate Thranduil in the Battle of the Last Alliance, etc. (as did George Lucas with Star Wars afterwards). 

Cheers! :D

[GrahamCracker-md]

I think if he made two 3.5 hour movies that would have been great

[magickriver]

Goblin interviews Hobbit for the L.A. Times. That's how it looks to me.

[andyinwards]

Yes the 48 fps, along with high resolution, and even the use of HDR we see nowadays, all enhance realism but the question is how realistic do you want your fantasy world to look? Hyper realistic images make things look like what they really are. I think it’s beneficial for a documentary where you’re trying to get as much of the detail and impact of real world places on to people’s tv screens at home but with a film that’s set in a fictional world that’s not really helpful. Part of the Hollywood “magic” is in what you can’t see. The things that are cleverly hidden away. Lord of the rings benefits from lower resolution, softer lighting etc. Where as the hobbit movies are an exercise in the law of diminishing returns when you become too caught up in technical improvements for the sake of pushing the state of the art rather than using techniques that are best for your specific case, which will vary from film to film

[g.t.werber]

It's curious that despite the advance of technology LoTR looks much better than The Hobbit.