No último filme de Hobbit, A Batalha dos Cinco Exércitos , por que o filme começou com a morte de Smaug? Por que isso não terminou durante A Desolação de Smaug ?
De acordo com Peter Jackson ( source ):
We did talk about it a lot. There was certainly a lot of discussion about it. It was just an opportunity. It was just a chance – it’s very rare that you get to do films back to back whether it’s two or three films and to be able to just end on a cliffhanger.
E foi uma escolha deliberada para terminar o segundo filme em um momento de angústia.
Peter Jackson e Philippa Boyens discutiram isso com uma extensão considerável no comentário do cineasta sobre a Desolação de Smaug. Resumindo, houve uma strong pressão no estúdio para deixar o filme em um substancial cliffhanger e resolvendo o enredo do dragão, você perderia a habilidade de envolver os personagens de Laketown no terceiro filme , sem recorrer a flashbacks para explicar quem são e por que estão fugindo da cidade:
Jackson : There was debate about the ending, whether we should have a cliffhanger or not, I mean at the end of the day, there wasn't [chuckling] a hell of a lot of choice about it, really I mean, y'know, there was never any talk about destroying Laketown in this film, I mean I think, y'know there was a sense maybe that maybe it's a sort of, this, that Laketown, the destruction of Laketown was going to be the end of the film but in a way it's not, it just didn't feel right to us because it's not, I don't know, it just didn't feel like it belonged in this film for some strange...well we, this was never a decision that we even seriously considered, it was like, well you actually can't end this, with this by....
Phillippa Boyens: ...Resolving everything...
Jackson : Because as it is, you see, with the Dragon attack at the start of the third movie it also gives us the chance to push through some of the other storylines so even though something may happen to the dragon (spoiler alert) the, there was still a lot of other narrative that's motoring on at the same time.