THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Art Teases 45-Minute Epic Battle Scene!
We have a couple of spectacular pieces of art from Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. This is just a glimpse at the epic climactic battle in the movie, and according to EW, the scene is going to be 45 minutes long! How freakin' cool is that! This is what this trilogy has all been leading up to, and it's going to kick some major ass. Jackson talked to EW about creating the full-scale assault:
“There’s a lot of logistics that have to be thought through. We have dwarves and men and elves and orcs, all with different cultures, with different weapons, and different shields and patterns and tactics.”
The battle takes place at the foot of the Lonely Mountain and it sounds like it's going to be the biggest battle that we've seen in any Middle Earth film. The director went on to talk about the logistics of bringing something like this to life.
“Before we could loose 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?’‘Are they going to fill up the valley or look like a speck?’ Then we could start drawing the arrows on the schematics.
“We have a rule that we’re not allowed to go more than two or three shots of anonymous people fighting without cutting back to our principal characters. Otherwise the audience just ends up with battle fatigue.”
I can't wait to see this huge action sequence play out before my eyes on the big screen! I hope I can handle the awesomeness of it all! This art coolest thing that I've seen from this movie so far.