{"id":70188,"date":"2013-03-24T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=70188"},"modified":"2013-03-25T00:02:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T05:02:54","slug":"a-running-commentary-made-during-the-live-sneak-peek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/03\/24\/70188-a-running-commentary-made-during-the-live-sneak-peek\/","title":{"rendered":"A running commentary during the Live Desolation of Smaug Sneak Peek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The countdown, how exciting!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<ul style=\"list-style: disc; padding: 4px;\">\n<li>Live Stream starts now&#8230; with Jed Brophy at the Post Production house<\/li>\n<li>Peter is reading the newspaper<\/li>\n<li>spoiler alert, it\u2019s great weather on Monday<\/li>\n<li>Cricket scores shared for the English fans<\/li>\n<li>Motion capture stage visited, with Azog and another Orc, more\u00a0fighting with the orcs, including orc archery<\/li>\n<li>Dam Busters, someone should remake it so Jed can be in it.<\/li>\n<li>James Bond walk of fame is rather cool<\/li>\n<li>Pre-vis department, Pre-visualisation (animated sequences)<\/li>\n<li>I see Smaug poster<\/li>\n<li>Rather comic version of Smaug on a computer screen (psych)<\/li>\n<li>the T-Rex with wings look a bit like Pete\u2019s Dragon<\/li>\n<li>Rivendell library is rather cool looking, even if never used<\/li>\n<li>Jed loves Goldfinger<\/li>\n<li>And then we enter the Editing room with Jabez Olssen<\/li>\n<li>One Million years B.C was the poster over PJ\u2019s bed as a kid<\/li>\n<li>Now to see editing happening<\/li>\n<li>Bard is taking the Dwarves and their barrels across the river, in a boat.<\/li>\n<li>Bilbo &#8211; I should never come along, we have a saying in the Shire\u00a0\u201cnever venture east\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>He seems rather miserable<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I should never have left Bagend. We have a saying in the Shire, we\u00a0learn it from birth, Never Venture East.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Peter and Jed agree that Aidan is one of the Hot Dwarves (Lisa)<\/li>\n<li>Jed looks very waterlogged<\/li>\n<li>We get the final cut &#8211; and it\u2019s Bard saying \u201cSo Master Hobbit, why did you venture East?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Yeah Luke, sends a little message to say hello to the fans. The One Ringer, that\u2019s us!<\/li>\n<li>Jed teases that Bard is out of the film\u00a0but Peter says that Bard is one of the cool things about the next film<\/li>\n<li>Here come the video questions.<\/li>\n<li>Chris asks about problems with a middle film?<\/li>\n<li>PJ answers &#8211; middle films are complicated, but with multiple story lines\u00a0different character arcs and plot lines take over.<\/li>\n<li>Thranduil on his throne, awesome.<\/li>\n<li>elf troop, with Legolas and Tauriel, fighting orcs<\/li>\n<li>Laketown and the Master looking smarmy, and his manservant looks\u00a0a bit like Grima.<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Fry says he\u2019s taking over from Orlando as the\u00a0most desirable man in the films<\/li>\n<li>Stephen sends a video, and mentions that England is decimating NZ\u00a0in Cricket<\/li>\n<li>Chinese girls ask questions about Legolas and Orlando and why he\u00a0was cast and whether or not he\u2019s similar to his Elf<\/li>\n<li>Orlando sends a video to ask PJ a question &#8211; he wants to know what\u00a0image he is most excited to see onscreen.<\/li>\n<li>PJ says fans are most excited to see Smaug and Bilbo together and so\u00a0is he.<\/li>\n<li>Stephen\u2019s video has been running in the background because he\u2019s\u00a0so wordy, but he says he has no idea if he\u2019s in the last film<\/li>\n<li>Marina in Canada &#8211; asks about new characters<\/li>\n<li>PJ answers &#8211; Thranduil, Bard (part of the family now), They\u2019ve made\u00a0Bard like Robin Hood, is he good or bad. And of course, Tauriel is new,\u00a0a new creation. Yay for her costume, finally getting to really see it.<\/li>\n<li>Tauriel wears a leather<\/li>\n<li>Brazilian kids asking questions, call it LOTR and pronounce it as a word<\/li>\n<li>The kids ask about PJ\u2019s favorite weapons, theirs is Gimli\u2019s and Gloin\u2019s axe.<\/li>\n<li>PJ loves Theoden\u2019s sword, with the horse motifs.<\/li>\n<li>And back to London and Stephen Fry\u2019s video still running \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>PJ was punishing Stephen about his comments about the NZ Cricket team<\/li>\n<li>Twitter question about how difficult it is to stay on track or schedule<\/li>\n<li>They mention the Flood in Nelson as one thing that messed up shooting<\/li>\n<li>Surprise question with from Stephen Colbert &#8211; asks about the Sindar Elves\u00a0and the Avari elves? PJ says yes about the Elves<\/li>\n<li>So PJ rags on Stephen Colbert about two different sizes of mugs on his\u00a0show, and how the quality of the printing on the mugs is poor quality<\/li>\n<li>Twitter question &#8211; does he edit barefoot?\u00a0 Yes, he can be barefoot.<\/li>\n<li>Lee Pace, woohoo, looking rather fab, as usual. Lee is looking forward\u00a0to seeing the animosity of Dwarves and Elves in his own halls.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter question &#8211; would Jed like to inflict any dwarf torture on PJ?<\/li>\n<li>Jed says maybe, but has to say no because he wants to continue\u00a0to work with him.<\/li>\n<li>Great story about the Dwarves on the spit, and how Mark Hadlow got sick\u00a0and asked to take a break and no one heard him. Poor thing<\/li>\n<li>Billy Boyd sends a video question &#8211; In FOTR, they went as far as the\u00a0Misty Mountains, but he knows in The Hobbit they go further East. Billy\u00a0wants to know about any new Wildlands.<\/li>\n<li>PJ answers about Mirkwood, and shows artwork the darkness and foreboding\u00a0nature of Mirkwood. Misty and mirky and hard to walk through, to be\u00a0sure.<\/li>\n<li>Evangeline sends a question &#8211; What will Thranduil\u2019s realm be like?<\/li>\n<li>PJ mentions that Green Screens is why she does not know what the realm\u00a0looks like. The artwork shows a bridge over a raging river to a structure like\u00a0Rivendell, but inside the forest. The realm looks like Rivendell and Lorien\u00a0mixed together, but underground.<\/li>\n<li>Dom Monaghan asks a question, he is holding the camera himself.<\/li>\n<li>What is the best PJ rumor you\u2019ve heard that is not true?<\/li>\n<li>What are you happiest about in transferring book to film?<\/li>\n<li>PJ answers about the craziest rumor &#8211; people asked him if he was\u00a0going to move his family to a ship off the coast to avoid paying Taxes. He gets\u00a0too seasick to do that.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter question &#8211; will the Necromancer play a bigger part, and PJ says\u00a0yes and nothing else.<\/li>\n<li>Here comes a look at the movie, but the Trailer is not ready yet.<\/li>\n<li>PJ says that Gandalf goes to see the tombs of the Witch-king<\/li>\n<li>Gandalf in a cavern, showing a dark doorway that appears to be blown\u00a0open from within. He then goes inside, and sees a bird flies out of\u00a0broken stonework, and then sees Radagast. The Nine tombs were\u00a0broken open from the inside.<\/li>\n<li>The vlogs will be starting up again, even though this is very much like one.<\/li>\n<li>Sequence of action from throughout the film concluding with \u2018We are the Dwarves\u00a0of Erebor, we have come to reclaim our homeland\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Ran for about 55 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Remember, if you missed the Peter Jackson hosted first look at \u201cThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,\u201d \u00a0or just want to watch it over again, a modified version will be archived on the Trilogy\u2019s official website \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehobbit.com\/sneak\" target=\"_blank\">www.thehobbit.com\/sneak<\/a>. To access the footage, use your UltraViolet code on your copy \u201cThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey\u201d Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack or 2-Disc Special Edition DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Also, be sure to stay tuned to TheOneRing.net for a detailed analysis. 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