Guillermo Del Toro Will Direct ‘The Hobbit’
April 24, 2008 | Categories: Films

Earlier today it was announced that the amazing Guillermo del Toro will be directing the upcoming The Hobbit movie. But that’s not all, he’ll also be directing a sequel to The Hobbit which deals with the 60 year period between where The Hobbit ends and Lord of the Rings begins. In fact he’s so commited to the movie that he’s moving to New Zealand for the next four years so he can film the movies back to back.

I’ve been a big fan of del Toro’s since I saw The Devil’s Backbone (which has one of the VERY best ghosts I’ve ever seen in a movie) and of course the amazing job he did on Pan’s Labyrinth as well. I think that he’ll do an amazing job, but it sucks that we all have to wait until 2011 and 2012 to see these movies!

For more info check out the Variety article here.

Bobby

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  1. i hope you’re not disregarding The Orphanage on purpose.
    that movie was astounding.

    Comment by maxjue — April 25, 2008 #

  2. even though he didn’t DIRECT it.

    Comment by maxjue — April 25, 2008 #

  3. Brilliant news:) I’m sure he would only agree to this if he had complete control too

    Comment by john — April 25, 2008 #

  4. where did you find that illustration? i love it!

    Comment by cari — April 25, 2008 #

  5. apparently, this news has changed: http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2008/04/60-year-period-between-hobbit.html

    Comment by Matthew — April 25, 2008 #

  6. The Devil’s Backbone is so creepy! I’m pretty psyched about the Hobbit - I really liked the music for the Rings trilogy, and I can assume it’s probably going to be similar.

    Comment by Veronica — April 25, 2008 #

  7. yeah i was about to say, the orphanage is absoloutely epic.

    Comment by Louise — April 28, 2008 #

  8. The real tragedy is that since Del Toro is signed on for the Hobbit films, his long-awaited adaptation of Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness is most definitely not happening anymore. DAMN.

    I’d prefer a Del Toro-crafted Antarctic monster dread flick over 2 Hobbit films any day…

    Comment by ryan — May 4, 2008 #

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