Jackson Was 'Winging It' When Shooting Hobbit

Director Peter Jackson has admitted he was "winging it" when he was making the final film in The Hobbit trilogy.

A DVD extra for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies details the pressure Jackson was under from the very start of the production.

He joined the New Zealand project in 2010 after Mexican director Guillermo del Toro walked away after a year-and-a-half.

"I just started shooting the movie with most of it not prepped at all," Jackson said.

"When you're going onto a set, very complicated, and you're winging it.

The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies

"You've got nothing to go on, no storyboards, no prereels, you've got these massively complicated scenes and you're just making it up there and then on the spot.

"If I was a director that hadn't had that 25 years of experience of doing this in the past, it would have just been almost impossible."

In contrast, the creative team on Jackson's Lord Of The Rings had around three-and-a-half years to prepare before the cameras started rolling.

Jackson said he would tell the crew to take a lunch break so he could take an hour to clear his head and work out what he wanted to film.

The six-minute video shows pictures of him sitting alone on the set looking deep in thought and exhausted.

His colleagues on the production and creative teams also describe how stressful it was when decisions were made at the last minute.

Richard Taylor, creative director at WETA workshop, a special effects and props company, said: "You're laying the tracks directly in front of the train and that chased us all the way to the end."

British actor Andy Serkis, who was second unit director on the film, said it all came to head when shooting the epic battle scene.

"Nothing had been formulated at all so we were waving around in the wind really."

The decision was made to stop the production in 2012 and revisit the scene the next year.

It is thought it was this which led to the release date being pushed back from July 2014 to December 2014.

The three Hobbit films were a success at the box office but The Five Armies was the least well received.

Many fans criticised Jackson's decision to split JRR Tolkien's short book into three feature-length films.

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