When he took the stage in Hall H last weekend during the Warner Bros. presentation, Comic-Con royalty Jackson was filming the crowd of over 6,500 genre enthusiasts with his iPhone. This production blog includes some snippets of the footage Jackson shot onstage, such as him leading all of Hall H in a greeting for fans who couldn't attend, and it also gives a peek behind the proverbial curtain, following Jackson, co-writer Philippa Boyens, and castmembers like Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis as they navigate the three ring circus that is SDCC.
Once it gets into the actual production, though, the almost fifteen-minute long video provides looks at filming, many a set, Radagast the Brown, and the Goblin King. It also gets quite lugubrious as the cast and crew look back fondly on principal photography.
The video first appeared on Jackson's Facebook, where it was accompanied by the director's greeting, "Hi everyone. I know that not everybody gets to Comic Con, so I thought I'd bring a little bit of Comic Con to you! Here's a bit of what I saw in San Diego, and what those in Hall H got to see of The Hobbit!"
It's a poor substitute for actually hanging out on set in New Zealand or in the San Diego Convention Center, but this particular production blog at least allows you to avoid crowds. And the Hall H food. Those hot dogs are dangerous.
Check out Jackson and Freeman's thoughts on The Hobbit from Comic-Con by clicking here.
Jackson returns to Middle Earth after making the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and once again he's working from a screenplay by himself, Boyens, and Fran Walsh. Guillermo del Toro, who was attached to direct when the two-part prequel was stranded in development for legal and financial reasons, is also credited with a contribution to the script(s).
The cast includes familiar faces like Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood, Andy Serkis, Orlando Bloom, and Ian Holm. Newcomers to the cast, meanwhile, include Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Richard Armitage, Lee Pace, Aidan Turner, James Nesbitt, Sylvester McCoy, Barry Humphries, and Billy Connolly.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey arrives in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D on December 14 of this year, followed by The Hobbit: There and Back Again on December 13, 2013.
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