THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG - 12 New Posters & Exclusive Featurette

Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" certainly deserves to win an award for its many posters. Apart from almost 20 other posters released so far, today we have a total of 12 new posters, US and international versions, and one banner poster. Warner Bros has also released an exclusive content featurette which reveals a new character, Beorn (Mikael Persbrandt), a man who is a shape-shifter, or "skin-changer" in Tolkien's text, and can transform into a black bear.

The second film in the new Middle-Earth trilogy stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch.

"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" opens on December 13, 2013.

Check out the posters and featurette.

Posters

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International Posters

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Banner Posters

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Exclusive Content Featurette

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Official Synopsis

"The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor."

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