Peter Jackson (Ringenes Herre) snakket for en stund siden om at de hadde så mye ekstramateriale fra Hobbiten og at det var interessante ting som ikke hadde blitt belyst i de to filmene, og derfor mente han at de kunne filme litt ekstra og skape en tredje film ut av det de har tilgjengelig. Den tredje filmen er blitt bekrefet at den blir noe etter hva han har skrevet selv:
'So, without further ado and on behalf of New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Wingnut Films, and the entire cast and crew of “The Hobbit” films, I’d like to announce that two films will become three.'.

Peter Jackson forteller hvordan han kan lage ikke bare to men tre filmer ut av en så kort bok:
...we haven’t just adapted The Hobbit; we’ve adapted that book plus great chunks of his appendices and woven it all together. The movie explains where Gandalf goes; the book never does. We’ve explained it using Tolkien’s own notes. That helped inform the tone of the movie, because it allowed us to pull in material he wrote in The Lord of the Rings era and incorporate it with The Hobbit. So we kept the charm and the whimsy of the fairy tale quality through the characters. Through the dwarves and Bilbo, who is more of a humorous character. He doesn’t try to be funny but we find him funny and find his predicament more amusing than that of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings. That was more serious. So the whimsy is there, but tonally I wanted to make it as similar to The Lord of the Rings, because I wanted it to be possible for the people, the crazy people in the world who want to watch these films back to back one day... 

Innspillingen av ekstrascener foregå sommeren 2013 på New Zealand. Så her er det bare å glede seg.

Kilde: Slashfilm.com