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Del Toro and Jackson have a positive working relationship, where they will compromise on disagreements to the benefit of the film.^[16] Del Toro believes he will be able to shoot all of the films himself,^[38] although Jackson noted he had similar hopes for filming all of his trilogy, and has offered to help as second unit director. Del Toro will shoot the films in the trilogy’s 2.35:1 aspect ratio, rather than his signature 1.85:1 ratio.^[16] He hopes to collaborate again with cinematographer Guillermo Navarro.^[28] Del Toro shares Jackson’s passion for scale models and background paintings,^[39] though he wants to increase the use of animatronics; “We really want to take the state-of-the-art animatronics and take a leap ten years into the future with the technology we will develop for the creatures in the movie. We have every intention to do for animatronics and special effects what the other films did for virtual reality.”^[20] Spectral Motion (Hellboy, Fantastic Four) are among those Del Toro wants to work with again.^[28] Some characters will be created by mixing computer-generated imagery with animatronics, and some will solely be created with animatronics or animation. Gollum will be entirely digital again, as Del Toro noted “if it ain’t broke, why fix it?”^[39]

Del Toro and Jackson considered the sudden introduction to Bard the Bowman and Bilbo being unconscious during the Battle of the Five Armies to be “less cinematic moments” reminiscent of the novel’s more “fairy tale world” than The Lord of the Rings, which they would change to make The Hobbit feel more like the trilogy.

However, Del Toro considered some of these moments like Bilbo waking up to find the battle is over iconic and would require the “fairy tale logic [to] work as is”.

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