Peter Jackson's answered a few key questions regarding The Desolation Of Smaug, the second movie in his The Hobbit trilogy, covering plotting, set designs and his complaint with a certain well-known US TV talk show host.
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Peter Jackson Talks Smaug, Mirkwood And Stephen Colbert
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