The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - 2013 Pre-orders

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by LesPaul

It was filmed in 5K though http://www.thehobbitblog.com/?p=3933 so they could potentially release it at that some day.

Sure they could (ditto for anything shot on 35mm and finished at 2K, like LOTR) but as chip said, the visual effects would need to be rebuilt (or upscaled, like Spider-Man 3) which would need a fair amount of work for such an effects heavy film. That's not to say that it wouldn't ever be done, but the 4K future is a long way off to make such a project economically viable.