![]() ![]() ![]() The airline had been secretive about the exact design, revealing only that it worked with Jackson’s Weta. They explain various safety rules for passengers with a balance of seriousness and silliness. Air New Zealand unveiled its \'Hobbit\'-themed 777-300ER in Auckland last weekend. The 280-second video stars: Elijah Wood (the lead in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and who also appeared in the first ‘Hobbit’ film) director Jackson Sylvester McCoy, the former Dr Who and Weta Workshop co-founder Sir Richard Taylor. Air New Zealand's new The Hobbit-themed inflight safety video has become a global hit with worldwide media coverage spurring it to more than six million YouTube views in just four days. In the four-minute video, two Hobbit superfans board an Air New Zealand flight and are flabbergasted to find that Wood, a.k.a. The tongue-in-cheek, disarmingly charming promo is the third and final tie-in between the airline and Hobbit films and launches as anticipation mounts for Jackson’s third and final part of his latest trilogy – ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’.Īir New Zealand has even branded itself the "official airline of Middle Earth", the fictional region from the books and films. In fact, the central characters in the ad are a pair of male and female Tolkien dweebs, who are suitably awestruck. A new flight-safety video from Air New Zealand the official airline of Middle-earth, as the company puts it heralds the upcoming release of the latest Hobbit movie with an elfin. To say the Kiwis are all-in over native son Peter Jackson's locally shot The Hobbit trilogy is putting it lightly. Air New Zealand, the 'official airline of Middle-earth' has released a new Hobbit-themed airline safety video in celebration of the last movie in The Hobbit trilogy, being released in December. It is nestled on a 2,500 acre farm in the heart of Matamata, a small town in New Zealand. The ad is an emphatic nod to Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Hobbit’ films, which were shot in New Zealand and have put the country on the map for Tolkien geeks. Fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are likely familiar with Hobbitonthe hobbit village set designed for the movie series. ![]()
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