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Smaug Alert: New Hobbit Preview Gives a Glimpse of Dragon
• http://www.wired.com, By Hugh HartA few seconds into the TV spot embedded above, the gold-hoarding dragon flies into view for the first time. The ancient creature, performance-captured by Benedict Cumberbatch, makes a cameo in the first installment of Jackson’s trilogy, but the New Zealand director hopes to whet Hobbit-philes’ appetite for more Smaug in parts 2 and 3.
“I want to present the most venal, scary, decrepit, nasty dragon I possibly can,” Jackson told Hero Complex.