Taika Waititi reveals What We Do in the Shadows set was built using stolen material from The Hobbit

Taika Waititi in What We Do in the Shadows
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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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