Hopefully all of you Hobbit fans out there were able to watch the special The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug “Fan Sneak” Q&A session with Peter Jackson on March 24. It was so great; an hour-long Q&A session that included bits of behind-the-scenes clips with green screen, and one long finished clip of Gandalf and Radagast doing some investigation. Unfortunately, that clip has not yet been released.
What has been posted by Peter Jackson today, however, are some excepts from the Q&A session, and within that are a couple of the green screen bits. You’ll get a very quick look at Evangeline Lilly and at Stephen Fry during filming, a map of middle earth, artwork for Mirkwood, a video fan question, a video question about the classes of elves by Stephen Colbert, and a video question from Billy Boyd, who played Pippin in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
First and arguably most important, however, is that you’ll learn that apparently all the people involved in the production of the movie pronounce Smaug as “schmowg,” rhyming with “cow” and a hard “g” sound at the end. Go figure.
Warner Bros have kindly let me post a six-minute excerpt of the Live Event we did to preview The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, to give anyone who missed it a sense of what it was like.
Featurette: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – March 2013 Live Event Excerpt
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Hopefully more of the session will be released soon. Jackson did confirm during the session that he will be continuing with his video blogs for this second installment of the Hobbit trilogy, so keep a lookout for those here on SciFi Mafia.
The Hobbit films star 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.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is available now on Blu-ray and DVD. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be released Dec. 13, 2013; the third installment in the series, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, will hit theaters December 17, 2014.
