Taika Waititi reveals What We Do in the Shadows set was built using stolen material from The Hobbit
"I don’t know if Peter Jackson knows"

Taika Waititi has revealed the source of What We Do in the Shadow's green screens and timber – they were stolen from the set of the second Hobbit movie. Both movies were filmed in New Zealand and were release💯d a year apart, in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
"When I did What We Do in the Shadows, when Jemaine [Clement, the movie's co-director, co-writer, and star] and I were shooting that, we didn’t have much money to do that film, and The Hobbit had just wrappe🐓d," Waititi said on . "And, so, our production designer – man, I don’t 𝕴know if I should tell this. Okay, but I will – our production designer, in the dead of night, took his crew to The Hobbit studios and stole all of the dismantled, broken-down green screens and took all of the timber, and we built a house."
The director added: "I had never talked to [The Hobbit director] Peter Jackson about this. I don’t know if he kꦏnows. I like telling it at parties, that story. But🌼 I don’t know if he actually knows."
What We Do in the Shadows had a budget of $1.6 million compared to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug's $200 million. Waititi and Clement's vampire mockumentary follows a group of four bloodsucking flatmates in Wellington, New Zealand. The movie was adapted into an FX series, which is about to start its fourth season and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:was recently renewed fo𓃲r season𝓰s 5 and 6.
Next up for Waititi is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thor: Love and Thunder, which arrives on the big screen on July 8 and sees him return to the director's chair in the MCU. While we wait, make sure you're up to date with the MCU with our guide to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Phase 4.
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