'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug:' Making-Of VIDEO of the Barrel Escape Scene Revealed [VIDEO]
The making-of clip for the epic barrel escape scene for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has been revealed by Wired.
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The scene -- which is also one of director Peter Jackson's favorites -- featured the hobbits getting away in wine barrels through a waterlogged region to escape the elves and Thranduil's kingdom in The Desolation of Smaug. The action sequence clocks in at a good seven minutes in the film.
Mike Seymour of FX Guide deconstructed the video and gave an intricate analysis of all that went on behind-the-scenes. Jackson culled the choicest bits from 98 hours of footage which was drawn from aerial shots and complex CG environments.
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Recently, a featurette of Benedict Cumberbatch doing the motion capture of the dragon Smaug had also been revealed by the visual effects team that worked on the second film in The Hobbit trilogy.
The actor told Vulture that he asked director Peter Jackson if he could be involved in motion-capture, where he could simulate the dragon's movements during filming and have it mimicked on screen rather than merely providing a voice-over for the deadly creature.
After the success of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, fans eagerly await the last in the trilogy, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, which will release later this year.
Giving away a few spoilers, director Peter Jackson had previously told Yahoo! that there could be a massive clash -- as in J.R.R. Tolkien's original novel -- between the elves, men, dwarves, and goblins, when they arrive at the Lonely Mountain.
The Hobbit: There and Back Again will hit theaters on Dec. 18.
Watch the clip here:
