The Hobbit Production Video Coming Soon

Peter Jackson has taken to his Facebook page to update the status on the production videos (coming soon). He also posted the image of Jimmy Nesbitt (Bofur) wearing webs as the Dwarfs prep to film whatever is next. My guess is the scene is involves the Mirkwood Forest and its giant spiders that we will see in Desolation of Smaug this December.

Any day you can cover the wonderful Jimmy Nesbitt and his fellow dwarves in cobwebs is a good day! Work continues on pick ups here in Wellington, with a new video blog in the final stages of post and out very soon!

The Hobbit Production Video #7

After a three month drought, Peter Jackson has posted to Facebook a new production video. This video is a tour of the Stone Street Studio in Maramar, New Zealand. It is a tour of departments and crew that supports the filming of The Hobbit. Various actors and crewman showed off the many departments including stunts, hair & makeup, costumes, various stages, art department, and the list keeps going. It was a great snippet of behind the scenes footage that just some of the filming without the usual sales pitches that 99.9% of behind the scenes stuff inflict on us. These diaries just let the work speak for themselves. Something other film productions (and DVD/Blu-ray extra creators) could learn from. Pictures have been posted here.
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Welcome Bofur, Bombur, and Bifur

Three more dwarves join the ranks of the revealed dwarves for The Hobbit films with a few more to go. The latest image of Stephen Hunter (Bombur), James Nesbitt (Bofur) and William Kircher (Bifur) in full costume thanks to IGN. Thanks to Ghola for the link.

While most of the Company of Thorin Oakensheild is related to the royal and noble line of Durin, Bofur, his brother Bombur and their cousin Bifur most definitely are … not. Born and bred in the West, descendants of coal miners and iron workers, they have joined the Quest for the Lonely Mountain partly to seek their fortune and partly because they were told the beer was free.