The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Timing: 2:24 (144 min)

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Release date

2014-12-10

Country

New Zealand, United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, New Line Cinema, WingNut Films, 3Foot7

Genre

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Budget

$250 000 000

Revenue

$956 019 788

Website

https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/hobbit-battle-five-armies/

Director

Peter Jackson

Actors

Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ken Stott, Aidan Turner
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Scenario

Producer

Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins, Alan Horn, Carolyn Blackwood

Operator

Andrew Lesnie

Composer

Howard Shore

Artist

Joshua Barraud, Michael Smale

Audition

Victoria Burrows, John Hubbard, Liz Mullane

Editing

Jabez Olssen
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• The film is based on the novella by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” (1937).
• Despite appearing in all films of the trilogy, Kate Blanchett spent only eight days on set.
• After filming wrapped, several actors kept some props as souvenirs. Martin Freeman kept Bilbo’s sword and prosthetic ears, Richard Armitage saved the Orcrist sword, and Lee Pace kept the elven sword of his character. Sir Ian McKellen was also able to take the famous pointed hat of Gandalf from the set.
• When the Hobbit film series was in its early stages of development, it was planned that there would be only two films, with the second having the subtitle “There and Back Again.” But in July 2012, a decision was made to split the story into three parts, and this subtitle was given to the last film. In April 2014, Peter Jackson announced that the title of the third film would still be changed to “The Battle of the Five Armies.” The main reason for the title change was that this battle is the focus of the final film. Jackson wrote on his Facebook page that the title “There and Back Again” would have been appropriate for the second part of the film if it had been the last, but when they decided to make three films, the title became inappropriate, as Bilbo had already arrived “there” in the second part.
• When it was announced that the film would have its own booth at the Comic-Con festival in San Diego, several fans camped out at the entrance to the festival the day before the event to get the best spots. In the middle of the night, the fans were awakened by actors Lee Pace and Andy Serkis. They signed autographs, chatted with fans, and took pictures with them for several hours. Eventually, Pace fell asleep from exhaustion on a mattress next to the fans.
• The deer ridden by Thranduil (Lee Pace) was played by a horse named Moose (literally translated as “elk”).
• The song from the first trailer (“Edge of the Night”) was sung by Peregrin Took (Billy Boyd) in the film “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003). Moreover, Billy Boyd performed the final song for the film (“The Last Goodbye”).
• In the very first trailer for the film, there was a scene where some dwarves were riding in a chariot pulled by goats towards wolves. But this scene is not in the final version of the film. The scene is present in the director's cut.
• On October 13, 2015, the extended version of the film premiered in US cinemas, receiving an "18+" age rating. Until that moment, new versions of the films from The Hobbit trilogy, like the extended versions of the three The Lord of the Rings films, had never been shown in cinemas.
• Peter Jackson built an exact replica of Bilbo Baggins's hole in the basement of his New Zealand home. The basement of the estate in Masterton, purchased by Jackson in the early 2000s, was converted into Bilbo's dwelling. According to designer Binna Smee, who worked as a set decorator on the film adaptations of Tolkien's books, to get to the hole you need to go down into the wine cellar, pull one of the bottles, cross a tunnel about 30 meters long, and enter a secret door. Directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, as well as actor Danny DeVito, whom Smee called one of Jackson’s closest friends, visited this Bilbo’s home.
• The main battle scene features 5,000 dwarves and elves and 36,000 orcs, as well as flocks of giant bats and several trolls. They were mostly created using computer graphics.
• Azog wounded Thorin in the leg through the ice, but later, when Bilbo is standing over Thorin, his entire soles are visible in the frame.
• In the scene where Thranduil orders the retreat to be sounded, Gandalf turns to him, asking him to send a detachment to help Thorin. After Thranduil’s response, Gandalf calls him by name. At that moment, you can see that Gandalf is holding his old staff, which was destroyed in the 2nd part of the film.
• When Legolas defeats an orc who falls onto the bridge and plunges into the gorge with it, it can be noticed that there are no bodies there, although there should be at least the body of the giant orc and two regular orcs.
• When Thorin Oakenshield falls, he is shown on the edge of an icy cliff, but when Bilbo runs to him, he is lying near the stairs.
• In the moment at the end of the film when Bilbo says goodbye to the dying Thorin, there is an overhead shot of the two characters showing many shadows of battling eagles and bats, but when the characters are shown in close-up, there are no shadows around them.
• The film is based on John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's novella “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” (1937).
• When the Hobbit film series was in its early stages of development, it was planned that there would be only two films, with the second having the subtitle “There and Back Again.” However, in July 2012, a decision was made to split the story into three parts, and this subtitle was given to the last film. In April 2014, Peter Jackson announced that the title of the third film would still be changed to “The Battle of the Five Armies.” The main reason for the title change was that this battle is the focus of the final film. Jackson wrote on his Facebook page that the title “There and Back Again” would have been appropriate for the second part of the film if it had been the last one, but when they decided to make three films, the title became inappropriate, as Bilbo had already arrived “there” in the second part.
• The elk on which Thranduil (Lee Pace) rides was played by a horse named Moose (literally translated as “elk”).
• The song from the first trailer (“Edge of the Night”) was sung by Peregrin Took (Billy Boyd) in the film “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003). Furthermore, Billy Boyd performed the final song for the film (“The Last Goodbye”).