The Extended Edition of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies will be released on 16 November in the UK and 17 November in the USA. It will also be available early on Digital HD from 20 October.
The Extended Edition will include 20 minutes extra footage not part of the theatrical release, which clocked in at 2 hours and 24 minutes, along with 9 hours special features.
New Material
New scenes likely to appear include a “chariot race” and a funeral sequence featuring speeches from Gandalf. According to Richard Armitage,
