12 Things We Learned from the ‘Desolation of Smaug’ Commentary

This week brings with it the Blu-ray release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Extended Edition. With approximately 25 minutes of new footage and the requisite oodles of special features, we suspect that many of the film’s fans won’t have time to watch them all. Don’t worry, CraveOnline is here to help.

CraveOnline has watched the entire Desolation of Smaug commentary track, featuring director Peter Jackson and co-writer Philippa Boyens, and filtered out all the information that doesn’t seem to be available anywhere else. The bulk of the track is about the adaptation process, the differences between the movie and the book, the new footage, and how much fun it was to make the film. That’s all well and good, but if you just want to learn some new trivia, hear some unexpected stories and get a tease for the upcoming The Battle of the Five Armies, you need go no further.

 

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Here are our favorite things we learned from the Desolation of Smaug commentary track, including one detail that’s so ludicrously obscure we can’t believe Peter Jackson even bothered including it. It also reveals one of the famed J.R.R. Tolkien enthusiast Stephen Colbert’s biggest pet peeves, which he insisted Jackson & Co. get right in the final film.

So enjoy, and then get on with your day. If you’re too busy to watch the whole commentary track, you’re probably reading this in a bit of a rush too.

 

12 Things We Learned from the ‘Desolation of Smaug’ Commentary

 


William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and the host of The B-Movies Podcast and The Blue Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.

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