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It’s Official! Guillermo del Toro Directs The Hobbit!

Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 9:24 am by Jami

Guillermo del Toro

Damn. I’ve run out of pants!

Does this look like the face of a Hobbit director to you? Cause it looks like the face of a Hobbit director to me!

It’s official! Guillermo del Toro has signed on to direct The Hobbit for New Line! He’s moving to New Zealand for four years after Hell Boy 2 drops to work with Peter Jackson and his Weta and Wingnut teams. There will be two films, The Hobbit and a sequel that fills in the period between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Rings.

We may have to wait until 2011 and 2012 to see these films. It also kind of sucks that in the mean time, we’ll be without del Toro movies in the theater. But I suspect there will be much awesomesauce four years from now.

If you’ll excuse me, I must now find new pants…

[Via Variety]

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6 Responses to “It’s Official! Guillermo del Toro Directs The Hobbit!”

  1. AvatarVonKraut
    Posted: Apr 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
    1

    Hope he doesn’t make it too weird.

  2. AvatarJeff
    Posted: Apr 25th, 2008 at 11:50 am
    2

    GODDAMNIT, I’m AT WORK and I need to change my pants.

    I’m in such fanboy squee mode now. SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

  3. AvatarLurklen
    Posted: Apr 25th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
    3

    Yeah im with you VonKraut, dont get me wrong i love del toros work but this is the hobbit it was written as a childrens story. I hope he doesnt make it TO dark, though i am wondering what the hell hes gonna do with Smaug cause his creatures always look awesome.

  4. AvatarLeto
    Posted: Apr 25th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
    4

    Smaug as designed by Guillermo will be very intense. I’m predicting Guillermo is going to go into full dark fairytale mode. I wonder if they’ll recast the actor who played Bilbo?

  5. AvatarSteve
    Posted: Apr 26th, 2008 at 11:58 am
    5

    No matter what, it will be better than that 1977 version of The Hobbit.

    There’s a level of darkness to all pre-Disney kids stories. The Grimms’ fairy tales were nightmare fuel. I think del Toro understands this.

  6. AvatarWayne
    Posted: Apr 26th, 2008 at 11:59 am
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    Ian Holm played Bilbo, and he’s 77 years old. That’s A LOT of de-aging, I would imagine they’ll cast a younger actor. IMDB shows it as already in production with Ian McKellan as Gandalf, so that’s cool. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/ (OK, it says McKellan is rumored, but I can’t imagine them getting anyone else)

    If there’s one thing that George Lucas did right in the original trilogy it was casting actors who looked like the older roles from chapters 4 - 6. I’m sure they can cast someone who you could expect would look like Ian when they get older.

    For me, yeah, The Hobbit will be very cool. But I’m REALLY looking forward to the bridge movie between Hobbit and Fellowship.

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