With its U.K. December 12th air date edging ever closer, Peter Jackson has revealed in an intimate interview with New Zealand Radio News that he is still working hard editing The Battle of the Five Armies, the third and final instalment of The Hobbit saga. Jackson admits that he is working “22 hours a day…so it’s pretty full on at the moment…I’ll be delighted when it’s finished…but obviously there will be a bittersweet quality to it.”
Anyone who has purchased the Extended Editions of the previous two movies will already understand just exactly how hard Jackson and company work to finish these pictures off in time. For the first movie, Peter Jackson and his team of editors were still working diligently right up until the morning of the worldwide premiere in Wellington and there was a similar story for The Desolation of Smaug.
In this short interview Peter Jackson also comments on some of his future projects and claims that The Dam Busters – a remake of the 1955 WWII drama chronicling how British soldiers blew up German dams – is still very much on the cards. Jackson and wife Fran Walsh have already co-written the screenplay with The Hobbit alumni and thespian Stephen Fry.
Check out the interview below:
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies will hit the big screen in the U.K on December 12 and U.S. on December 17. You can watch the official trailer here.
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Originally published November 14, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
