How much hobbit cost

The Hobbit is the tale of a hairy footed homunculus named Bilbo Baggins who sets out with 13 dwarves and a wizard, Gandalf, to wrest a priceless treasure from a sly old dragon. The next instalment in the trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, is due out in December, with the final chapter, There and Back Again, set for December Tolkien adaptation, The Hobbit , which has also been divided up into three parts.

The second movie in the trilogy has the benefit of introducing Star Trek Into Darkness villain Benedict Cumberbatch as the voice of Smaug the dragon, as well as featuring the return of Orlando Bloom as Legolas.

One way in which The Hobbit has already beaten The Lord of the Rings by quite a wide margin, however, is in its price tag. This doesn't count the additional two months of filming and pick-ups carried out after that date, but it means that the production of The Hobbit has already cost twice as much as that of The Lord of the Rings.

The AP reports The Hobbit. So, what happened? Well, for one thing that estimate was made when The Hobbit was being eyed as a two-part franchise.

Since then, Peter Jackson pushed for a trilogy, and as such padded on some new characters , subplots, and complex action sequences. That still seems pretty steep, right? Well, let's remember that these films boast a heavy amount of visual effects, elaborate costumes, as well as expansive casts.

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