Warner Bros. Home Entertainment have announced the eagerly-anticipated Extended Edition of the next installment in The Hobbit Trilogy.
In their press release, Warner Bros state:
The Quest through Middle-earth continues in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, from Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson, when the epic fantasy adventure is released as an Extended Edition on Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray on November 4th from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE).
A production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, this extended cut of the second film in The Hobbit Trilogy includes 25 minutes of extra film footage that extends individual scenes, making this the must-see, definitive version for fans.
The nine-plus hours of new special features boasts audio commentary with Peter Jackson, the film’s director/producer/screenwriter, and Philippa Boyens, co-producer/screenwriter, as well as “The Appendices,” a multi-part documentary focusing on various aspects of the film and the Trilogy. Complete special feature details are provided below.
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In the unlikely event you needed another excuse to revisit Middle-earth on screen, this will be your chance to extend those mouth-watering viewing experiences one more time, and relive The Hobbit‘s journey before its conclusion next December.
A Tolkienist's Perspective 
VERY excited about this and glad to see there will be twice as many minutes of deleted scenes than there were for AUJ.
So true. I felt that some of AUJ’s extended scenes were simply added for the “minutes”; unlike LOTR’s – where each extended scene felt as if it truly belong to the whole film from the start …
I need those 25 additional minutes!
Me too! 😀
Me too 🙂
It seems I am not the only Middle Eartholic here! 😉
Absolutely not 🙂
I’m hopeful about the extended version – I think the extended Unexpected Journey had a much stronger narrative flow than the theatrical version.
I certainly found the Bilbo-centric Rivendell moments essential to the narrative. Plus, I just couldn’t get enough of Hobbiton! So seeing the Shire for a few extra minutes was glorious (BOTFA can’t come soon enough 😀 )
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