Last week, Peter Jackson officially announced that he’d wrapped the final shooting block on production of The Hobbit, which has been shooting its two instalments back-to-back out in New Zealand.

Jackson has taken the film to Comic-Con this weekend, and has now been talking about a very interesting possibility.

He says that they’ve not been able to film a lot of material in the original novel and appendices, and that they’re currently in talks with the studio about going back to shoot more footage.

Whether that will turn into a trilogy or extended versions of the films isn’t yet known, and will no doubt depend on the direction the talks take in the coming days/weeks/months.

Jackson himself seems careful not to use the word ‘trilogy’ himself, but he does look to have a rather knowing smile on his face in the interview with HitFix below when first talking about going back to shoot more next year.

As things stand, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released this December, followed by The Hobbit: There and Back Again in December 2013. But it sounds like the possibility is there for that to change. Let us know your thoughts on a Hobbit trilogy in the comments below.

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