Is there any kind of terrain Peter Jackson can’t stage a massive action sequence on?

The director made his intentions plain in the first ‘Hobbit’ movie: take JRR Tolkien’s book, slap in a bit of backstory and then action-movie the hell out of it. This second instalment looks set to ramp up the running-jumping-fighting quotient even further, as the characters lay into one another in barrels, on rivers, up trees, behind battlements, under castles and down great big slopes of gold.

Five questions about 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' trailer

What can we learn about Peter Jackson's next blockbuster?

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The first trailer for ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’, the second part of Peter Jackson’s ludicrously epic ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy, emerged this week. In between getting slapped in the face with sparkly CGI and marvelling at the grandiose landscapes, we had time to think up a few questions that the film, which opens in the UK on December 13, will simply have to answer…

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