“Hobbit” Third Installment Gets New Title

April 25, 2014

Director Peter Jackson has announced the news that his third installment of The Hobbit trilogy has got a new name. The original name of the third film was thought to be ‘The Hobbit: There and Back Again’, however, the film has been retitled as ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’.

Peter Jackson has announced the news on his official Facebook page and has explained the reasons behind it.

“Our journey to make The Hobbit Trilogy has been in some ways like Bilbo’s own, with hidden paths revealing their secrets to us as we’ve gone along.

‘There and Back Again’ felt like the right name for the second of a two film telling of the quest to reclaim Erebor, when Bilbo’s arrival there, and departure, were both contained within the second film. But with three movies, it suddenly felt misplaced—after all, Bilbo has already arrived “there” in the ‘Desolation of Smaug,’ Jackson wrote.

As Jakson says, at one of the meetings with studio executives the idea of renaming the third installment in the trilogy was brought up for discussion. During the talks, they decided ‘to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at’.

After watching the first cut, all agreed that it was necessary to change the title. And so the third film of The Hobbit gets a new name