Peter Jackson will conclude his
stay in Middle Earth with an epic 45-minute battle that will pit Elves,
Dwarves, Man, and Eagles, against a horde of 10,000 Wargs and Goblins at the
Gates of Erebor in the foot of the Lonely Mountain.
"There’s
a lot of logistics that have to be thought through," says Jackson to Entertainment Weekly. "We have
dwarves and men and elves and orcs, all with different cultures, with different
weapons, and different shields and patterns and tactics. Before we could lose
the first arrow, we had to design the landscape itself and figure out, ‘Okay,
if we have 10,000 orcs, how much room are they going to take up?’ ” says
the director. “ ‘Are they going to fill up the valley or look like a
speck?’ Then we could start drawing the arrows on the schematics."
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five
Armies will introduce a never before seen character in the cinematic world of
Tolkien, the Lord of the Eagles. The director says however that this time they
will not come and save the day, as they did in the previous films.
“Tolkien
uses eagles in a way that can be kind of awkward because they tend to show up
out of the blue and change things pretty quickly,” says the
director. “So here they’re
just part of the plan, not the saviors. I mean, I do realize that if the eagles
had just been able to bring Frodo to Mount Doom in Lord of the
Rings and let him drop the ring in, those movies would have been much
shorter.”
Opening on
December 17th, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies stars Martin Freeman,
Ian McKellan, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, John
Bell, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen, Stephen Fry, Ryan Gage, Mark Hadlow,
Peter Hamleton, Stephen Hunter, William Kircher, Sylvester McCoy, Graham
McTavish, Michael Mizrahi, James Nesbitt, Dean O’Gorman, Mikael Persbrandt, Ken
Scott, Aiden Turner and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Source - EW
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