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Hi FanEdit Community,
I, too, have been working on a Hobbit project for a while now.
I started in November 2014 but had to wait for the german BluRay Release of Battle Of The Five Armies before I could finish my work.
I have completed a rough cut by now, cutting all three movies (EE of AUJ and DOS) into a single movie. THe current runtime is about 2h50min, including credits.
My version is called "The Little Hobbit". Obviously based on its runtime but also because the book was originally published as "Der kleine Hobbit" in Germany and though the title was changed to "Der Hobbit" quite a while ago the original title is still very common.
I did a test screening with some friends and fellow film students last night and got some valuable feedback so I expect another week or two before I can finalize the edit. Howver, I still expect the final version to be less than 3 hours.
The most explicit changes are:
- no prologue/old Bilbo
- reworked opening monologue
- all flashbacks removed throughout the movies
- shortened dwarf arrival
- no/as little as possible dwarf sillyness and slapstick throughout the entire movie
- no dinner song
- no "I'm going on an adventure!"
- no orcs until BOTFA
- troll scene trimmed/fight removed
- Radagast removed
- Rivendell trimmed
- added EE scene of Elrond/Bilbo
- no council, Galadriel, Saruman
- no stone giants (though I'm not 100% sure on that one yet)
- goblin song removed, slapstick fight removed
- Gollum scene intact
- no orcs/worlves/eagles
- opening to DOS gone
- Beorn is in for now, at least the EE scene and the dinner scene, but my orignal plan was to remove him completely, which is probalby going to happen
- Mirkwood trimmed/spiders severely trimmed/elven capture scene recued to minimal
- no Tauriel, no Legolas, no love triangle
- no Gandalf side quest
- barrel chase removed
- Laketown recued to less than 5 minutes, no politics, no master, no Alfrid
- Dwarves find the hidden keyhole right away
- no orcs in Laketown obviously
- Slapstick dragon fight/gold melting remvoed
- Bard doesn't use his son to fire the black arrow
- laketown survivors plot reduced to minimal
- no Gol Guldur
- no Bard/Thorin negotiation
- battle trimmed (obviously no Legolas, Tauriel, little Bard etc)
based on my test screening the ending is still in flux, I haven't decided on an ending scene yet and the Thorin/Azog fight is still a work in progress. also there obviously hundres of further small edits. the ones above are only the most significant for the plot
So as I said, I expect to be done within one or two weeks
I haven't watched any of the other All-Three-Movies-Edits to not be influenced and find my own style but I'm very excited to take a look at some other projexcts once I'm done to see how they solved some of the challanges I encountered.
Especially BOTFA is a piece of work to edit...
My sources are the german BluRay released of AUJ EE, DOS EE and BOTFA cinematic version, english audio and I inted a full 1080p 5.1 audio release
Once BOTFA EE is relaesed I may work on a The Little Hobbit v2, should the EE bear anything useful
I hope you're looking forward to this as much as I am!
I, too, have been working on a Hobbit project for a while now.
I started in November 2014 but had to wait for the german BluRay Release of Battle Of The Five Armies before I could finish my work.
I have completed a rough cut by now, cutting all three movies (EE of AUJ and DOS) into a single movie. THe current runtime is about 2h50min, including credits.
My version is called "The Little Hobbit". Obviously based on its runtime but also because the book was originally published as "Der kleine Hobbit" in Germany and though the title was changed to "Der Hobbit" quite a while ago the original title is still very common.
I did a test screening with some friends and fellow film students last night and got some valuable feedback so I expect another week or two before I can finalize the edit. Howver, I still expect the final version to be less than 3 hours.
The most explicit changes are:
- no prologue/old Bilbo
- reworked opening monologue
- all flashbacks removed throughout the movies
- shortened dwarf arrival
- no/as little as possible dwarf sillyness and slapstick throughout the entire movie
- no dinner song
- no "I'm going on an adventure!"
- no orcs until BOTFA
- troll scene trimmed/fight removed
- Radagast removed
- Rivendell trimmed
- added EE scene of Elrond/Bilbo
- no council, Galadriel, Saruman
- no stone giants (though I'm not 100% sure on that one yet)
- goblin song removed, slapstick fight removed
- Gollum scene intact
- no orcs/worlves/eagles
- opening to DOS gone
- Beorn is in for now, at least the EE scene and the dinner scene, but my orignal plan was to remove him completely, which is probalby going to happen
- Mirkwood trimmed/spiders severely trimmed/elven capture scene recued to minimal
- no Tauriel, no Legolas, no love triangle
- no Gandalf side quest
- barrel chase removed
- Laketown recued to less than 5 minutes, no politics, no master, no Alfrid
- Dwarves find the hidden keyhole right away
- no orcs in Laketown obviously
- Slapstick dragon fight/gold melting remvoed
- Bard doesn't use his son to fire the black arrow
- laketown survivors plot reduced to minimal
- no Gol Guldur
- no Bard/Thorin negotiation
- battle trimmed (obviously no Legolas, Tauriel, little Bard etc)
based on my test screening the ending is still in flux, I haven't decided on an ending scene yet and the Thorin/Azog fight is still a work in progress. also there obviously hundres of further small edits. the ones above are only the most significant for the plot
So as I said, I expect to be done within one or two weeks
I haven't watched any of the other All-Three-Movies-Edits to not be influenced and find my own style but I'm very excited to take a look at some other projexcts once I'm done to see how they solved some of the challanges I encountered.
Especially BOTFA is a piece of work to edit...
My sources are the german BluRay released of AUJ EE, DOS EE and BOTFA cinematic version, english audio and I inted a full 1080p 5.1 audio release
Once BOTFA EE is relaesed I may work on a The Little Hobbit v2, should the EE bear anything useful
I hope you're looking forward to this as much as I am!