They were filmed at the same time and released at different times. If they needed set work they filmed all of the scenes in that set for all the movies, ECT. It's not as easy to get out of that quagmire as it seems.
All that said, I got really tired of the Dwarves = Scots joke. When Billy Connolly showed up I wondered if Craig Ferguson just wasn't available at the time. It was obvious they wanted a lighter movie than LotR but didn't take the time to figure it all out before filming.
Who would even want to know about the fraught development process of The Hobbit trilogy after the absolute disappointment that it was. Not only that, but it's been years and it would appear that it was Jackson's decision to add a third film, to what was originally a two-parter.
For the Lord of the Rings movies, they filmed most of it back-to-back, and then took a year editing what they had between movies. I expect that the Hobbit movies followed the same trend, with everything being filmed at once.
That explains the first movie but how do you explain the second and third? ;)
They were filmed at the same time and released at different times. If they needed set work they filmed all of the scenes in that set for all the movies, ECT. It's not as easy to get out of that quagmire as it seems.
All that said, I got really tired of the Dwarves = Scots joke. When Billy Connolly showed up I wondered if Craig Ferguson just wasn't available at the time. It was obvious they wanted a lighter movie than LotR but didn't take the time to figure it all out before filming.
For someone who thinks they know a lot about the franchise it's funny that you don't even know how they filmed the movies.
Both trilogies were filmed back to back over about 18 months.
Who would even want to know about the fraught development process of The Hobbit trilogy after the absolute disappointment that it was. Not only that, but it's been years and it would appear that it was Jackson's decision to add a third film, to what was originally a two-parter.
For the Lord of the Rings movies, they filmed most of it back-to-back, and then took a year editing what they had between movies. I expect that the Hobbit movies followed the same trend, with everything being filmed at once.