UPDATE: Via the film's Twitter page, the first poster has arrived online. We've added it to the gallery with the still. Check it out!
The rechristened The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies is the final in the (unexpected) **Hobbit **trilogy, and the most eagerly anticipated, what with the battles, and the dragons, and the necromancers, and - with any luck - aerial dogfights, as director Peter Jackson has hinted at before{
Those who haven't read the book will have already worked out that there's a big brawl on the horizon, especially with the ending of the second film seeing everyone's favourite wild wyrm Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch) about to turn Lake-town into toast. For more spoilery details, if you can call them that, read on.
Spoilers for non-readers follow!
The Battle Of The Five Armies, of course, sees goblins and wargs (one army, supported by scary bats) face-off against dwarves, elves, men and giant eagles (four smaller armies) in a quest to gain control of Erebor (the Lonely Mountain) and Smaug's treasures within. In the book, Bilbo spends much of the conflict unconscious; we wonder whether that will still be the case onscreen? One change this time should see the orcs being led by the still-very-much loose Necromancer (also Benedict Cumberbatch), making them even more formidable.
Spoilers end
The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies will hit cinemas on December 12, 2014, starring, as ever, Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch (as both Necromancer and Smaug), Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Lee Pace, Evangeline Lilly, Aidan Turner, James Nesbitt and many more.