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Guillermo del Toro is DESPERATE to do The Hobbit.

Peter Jackson is desperate for del Toro to do The Hobbit.

Warner Bros. (they bought New Line remember) are desperate for del Toro to do The Hobbit.

WE are desperate for him to do The Hobbit.

According to the man himself who spoke to IGN, we should finally find out this week if the film is actually happening under his direction…

“We’re all in agreement on what we want to do creatively… we are coming to the point where the deal either will happen or not happen…Right now, I haven’t booked any planes yet… If it happens I would be coming in with humility and hard work”

Presumably the only thing stopping the movie right now is the legal issues with the Tolkien estate and also whether WB can come up with the necessary budget.

But del Toro is so keen. And just listen to the amount of research he is actually looking forward to under-taking. This is a dedicated guy and this kind of work ethic should be a role model for any director wanting to adapt a huge universe for the big screen. This from Coming Soon…

“I fell in love with “The Hobbit” but I’m marrying an entire mythology. It’s like meeting the family of a girl you’re going to marry… you get them all, and I fell in love with “The Hobbit” and now I’m familiarizing myself with not only the trilogy–the trilogy I only finally read–but every single thing I can read that Tolkien generated about Middle Earth or about him I’m reading, and in terms of the visuals. In order for the two movies to seamlessly involve into the trilogy, I have to literally put myself through the biggest “making of” ever assembled. I’m going to watch all the dailies of “Fellowship” and I’m going to watch most of the dailies of “The Return of the King.” I’ll watch as much material as I possibly can take, the camera reports… everything. By the end of the second (”Hobbit”) movie, you have to be able to have evolved towards “The Lord of the Rings” and feel that it’s a complete continuation”.

Very strangely and possibly as a joke, del Toro left this little riddle on the message boards of The One Ring…

A riddle for you all-

Half familiar, half unknown.

A thing it is, ¨It almost is-¨

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

The day of the moon will be
when all is revealed to thee
Questions will cease
Answers will please
We´ll learn of the Shire
and all you desire.

At ten minus Three.
Joining to be
Ten minus Eight
Add to the slate
of the two dozen princes
that die without winces.
And add to each day of
the week.

What the hell does that mean?

categories - Guillermo-del-Toro, Movie News, The-Hobbit

Further Reading

• THE HOBBIT will shoot for one whole year

• The Return of the King? Mortensen approached for THE HOBBIT!

• “Guillermo will direct THE HOBBIT”

• THE HOBBIT was del Toro’s “Christmas gift”

• Del Toro in talks for THE HOBBIT!!!

2 Comments »

1. He’s completely mad?!!!!!

   Comment by The Glove | April 21, 2008

2. The “Thing” could be the dragon? ten minus three could be some of the dwarfs? then minus eight 2 gandalf and bilbo? I dont know..

   Comment by Tommy | April 22, 2008

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