Taika Waititi Reveals The Set of WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Was Built Using Stolen Material From THE HOBBIT

Taika Waititi revealed an amusing bit of trivia regarding his 2014 comedy What We Do in the Shadows. During a recent interview with Stephen Colbert, the filmmaker revealed that the materials used to build the set for his film in New Zealand were stollen from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. He explained:

"When I did What We Do in the Shadows, when Jemaine [Clement, the movie's co-director, co-writer, and star] and I were shooting that, we didn’t have much money to do that film, and The Hobbit had just wrapped. And, so, our production designer – man, I don’t know if I should tell this. Okay, but I will – our production designer, in the dead of night, took his crew to The Hobbit studios and stole all of the dismantled, broken-down green screens and took all of the timber, and we built a house."

That’s fantastic! In case you’re wondering what Jackson thought about this, well, this will be the first time he’s heard of it provided he watched the interview or reads the internet. Waititi said:

"I had never talked to [The Hobbit director] Peter Jackson about this. I don’t know if he knows. I like telling it at parties, that story. But I don’t know if he actually knows."

What We Do in the Shadows ended up being a great film and it’s since been adapted into a hilarious TV series. I guess we can thank The Hobbit films for helping make the movie happen!