An A-Z of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. Sarah Oliver

of shade and light will be adjusted before 14 December 2012.’

      After negative reviews were published both online and offline, Peter Jackson decided to speak out and respond to the complaints as best he could. He told Entertainment Weekly: ‘Nobody is going to stop. This technology is going to keep evolving. At first it’s unusual because you’ve never seen a movie like this before. It’s literally a new experience, but you know, that doesn’t last the entire experience of the film – not by any stretch, (just) 10 minutes or so.

      ‘That’s a different experience than if you see a fast-cutting montage at a technical presentation.’

      He was hoping that fans would wait and see what the finished movie was like before judging it for themselves – and if people really didn’t like the new format then they could always see it in the usual format, as not every cinema would be showing the 48-frames-per-second version.