We’ve been spending a lot of energy on the countdown to Saturday for a certain TV show, but there’s another countdown going on; the countdown to Thursday, November 21, when tickets go on sale for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Then it’s only three more weeks til the premiere!
To celebrate, we have five new character posters, the seventh TV spot with some teeny bits of glorious new footage, and an absolutely hiliarious and charming Hobbit-inspired featurette from Air New Zealand:
TV Spot: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – #7
You’ll have to look quick to see the cameo by Sylvester McCoy (Radagast the Brown) in this Air New Zealand featurette, but you’ll have no trouble spotting Dean O’Gorman (Fili).
Featurette: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Just Another Day in Middle-Earth #airnzhobbit
New Zealand is definitely on my Someday If the Stars Align list; it is absolutely gorgeous. And yes I’m sure I’ll take Air New Zealand, to thank them for the great featuettes. Oh all right, here’s that Air New Zealand safety instructions video from last year, one more time:
Featurette: The Hobbit – An Unexpected Briefing
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, starring Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchette, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Sylvester McCoy, Aidan Turner, Graham McTavish, John Callen, Ken Stott, Mikael Persbrandt, Ryan Gage, Jed Brophy, William Kircher, Stephen Hunter, Ian Holm, Stephen Fry, Ryan Gage, Conan Stevens, Orlando Bloom, Luke Evans, Evangeline Lilly, Barry Humphries and Benedict Cumberbatch is scheduled to hit the theaters on December 13.
