Here’s Where Peter Jackson Would Have Split ‘The Hobbit’ Had It Been Two Movies
Right around the time of Comic-Con 2012,Peter Jacksonand his team decidedThe Hobbitwas going to be three moviesinstead of two. Originally, the movies were calledThe Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyandThe Hobbit: There And Back Again, but when another movie was added the third movie took the title of the second and the second one was namedThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.It’s in theaters now.
Obviously a third movie completely changed how Jackson and fellow writersPhilippa BoyensandFran Walshhad to structure the films. Jackson has now revealed where the initial split between the two films would have occurred.
Jackson revealed this information while being interviewed byEntertainment Weekly. You can hear the clip below, it comes towards the end.
If you don’t feel like listening, here’s the main info:
The split was going to occur where Bard appears on the river bank as a silhouetted figure with a bow. So the whole barrel sequence was going to be the climax.
Jackson added, however, ending there just didn’t feel right and with so much more story to tell, they were still worried if three films was enough.We recently reportedthe addition of Legolas (Orlando Bloom) toThe Hobbitis one of the biggest threads and will helpThere And Back Again, out one year from now, tie into Jackson’s originalLord of the Ringstrilogy. That’s just one example of how beefy Jackson and company get with the story.
Imagine last year, the final image you saw wasLuke Evans' silhouette on the horizon. Would that have been a satisfying conclusion?
