DP/30: Peter Jackson, The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies 

Peter did a great job with all the LOTR movies and The Hobbit movies!!! Thank You Peter for all your hard work through the years!

Thank you, he is absolutely one of my favorite living directors right now.

thanks for sharing. Peter is an inspiration to all of us. To anyone who wants to be a filmmaker, the appendices are a must!

Peter Jackson, thank you for all stupendous effort and heart you've put into these movies...

I love Jackson's commitment to making epic, gargantuan films. The dude is a legend

Thanks Peter for making the Hobbit and LOTR, I loved all three and I can't wait to start my Middle earth marathon

Love Jackson and I can't wait to see him make a smaller movie, hopefully soon.

Thank you for this lovely interview with a great and brilliant director. He's also an awesome man and a cool guy. Thanks Peter, for pouring your life into giving us these movies, and for pushing the envelope on special effects. You rock!

Thanks for uploading this! I enjoyed it and wish there were more long-form interviews with Peter Jackson.

Wow congrat! I want to make an interview too with P. J.. We have a video series with interviews with composers too. Many many hungarian fans like your movies and dedication to Tolkien's lore and world!

Lord of the rings triologi will forever be remebered. Filming the unfilmable, thanks to that man.(and many others ofcourse)

god i love this channel .. i didn't even started watching this video.

Good interview!!

imax in scotland wasnt shown in 48fps

It takes me a couple of minutes to remember this guy is actually from earth and not middle-earth 😀😀😀

For me it would be a dream come true if Peter makes a trilogy on the Halo series. He's pretty good at bringing fiction/fantasy movies to life. The Halo books got a boost from the game series. If he does the movies, bringing all the halo universe to life, that would be best thing that can happen to the halo franchise.

HAAAAAACKSON why you had to fuck up hobbit3?!

being french, I can testify it's really more about how to make a film, why, how, than about celebrity over here.

I am interested in seeing the two independent films he is going to make .

He's a great director, but I feel bad for him. He can never seem to maintain a healthy weight. One year he's in decent shape, two years later he's blown up again. It doesn't get any easier to lose the weight as you get older, either. I'm glad he's taking some time off to get things back in order.

interesting

Go France!

On the HOBBIT : BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES : Great movie, but the Battle of the Five Armies is waaaaaaay too short ! Really, incredibly, too short! The resolutions are too abrupt and the ending is too quick. It misses one important funeral, reconstruction of Lake-Town with Bard as it’s new master (or some kind of ending for Bard), Thranduil's white jewels, more Beorn and more White Council (which is a cameo really, not a payoff). It clearly needs more character-driven scenes. Ah and what about the Arkenstone? Also, Bilbo’s departure from Erebor seemed cold and distant to me, as was the last scene between Gandalf and Bilbo. I hope the 35 minutes of extended scenes you promised will solve that (but even 35 minutes seem insufficient to me). We believe in your filmmaker’s instincts, and hope you will inject some of the ‘’multiple ending’’ style from the Return of the King to Battle of the five Armies. Thanks!

On LORD OF THE RINGS : Peter, we want to see those deleted scenes, unused for the Extended edition of LOTR, be put back into a Ultimate Edition : - Fellowship of the Ring : additional footage from the Battle of the Last Alliance (and maybe add Lee Pace’s Thranduil into it), an extended Council of Elrond (dialogue from the Council of Elrond, such as Gandalf explaining how Sauron forged the One Ring) - The Two Towers : Arwen and Elrond visiting Galadriel at Lothlórien, Conversation between Elrond and Arwen in a library in Rivendell, after Arwen decides to wait for Aragorn. Elrond leaves saying “You gave away your life’s grace. I cannot protect you anymore” - Return of the King : further epilogue footage, with endings for Legolas and Gimli, Éowyn and Faramir's wedding and Aragorn's death and funeral. Also, to give context for Wormtongue killing Saruman, and Legolas in turn killing Wormtongue, it was to be revealed Wormtongue poisoned Théodred. The final scene cut was Aragorn having his armour fitted for the Battle of the Black Gate by the trilogy's armourers, which was the final scene filmed during principal photography. Peter you already have stated that you would like to include some of these unused scenes in a future "Ultimate Edition" home video release, also including out-takes. Also, you recently had a great idea, namely to put some of the Hobbit's characters into the LOTR, as you mentioned in this recent interview: " I actually think the young girls are going to start watching this 1, 2, 3 and they're going to start wondering where [Tauriel] is. We're really three or four years away from eight and nine year-olds discovering these movies and watching them in this order and will be wondering why she doesn't show up in "Lord of the Rings." Maybe we'll get Evangeline down to New Zealand, shoot a bunch of stuff, chop it up and put it into a box set. " It would be great if you would be able to revisit the cut of all 6 movies in the near future, do an "ultimate cut" of the 6 movies and integrate those scenes I mentioned back in the movies (instead of deleted scenes). You would also be able to reshoot the "Bilbo finding the Ring" scene from Fellowship of the ring, remake gollum from the shadowy scene from Fellowship, add more Balrog vs Gandalf fight, integrate Thranduil in the Battle of the Last Alliance, etc. Thanks!

will he ever make a film that doesn't involve gnomes?

what a nice guy - to bad he hasn't made a good movie since the LOTR trilogy

Peter Jackson The Hobbo

Good thing he recognises it but... Wow, the irony of this guy complaining about franchises and no original material in movies!!!

freaks shows director

This film was ghastly. In fact I was pretty annoyed by the treatment of the book. Where to start? Gravity defying elves (who really shouldn't even be there). The horribly written love triangle. The just god-awful idea of sandworms. Whoever thought they were a good idea should have been beaten with a club. The treatment of Beorn. The actual battle was turgid and so very Hollywood. Can we please just do a battle that makes sense at some time. You know it's not actually mandatory to charge into combat. You can use tactics, maybe use archers and use the high ground (Hey, didnt they do that in the book). Cinema-movie makers take note. You are not as good at writing this stuff than Tolkien was. Adapt his story for sure but don't just twist his stuff all out of recognition. Oh and THREE films - you are a bunch of money-gouging gits.

Peter Jackson = The most Mediocre Director of Hollywood. All the people he hires are the real genious on his projects, he just put his face as a director, just check all his previous movies before LODR and you'll see the man has no talent to make movies of his own. NO hate here, just telling it as it is.

Good interview!