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dave_iii

Trouble in Hobbiton

Jun 02, 2010 09:19

Del Toro Drops out of The Hobbit

Guillermo del Toro has dropped out as director of the planned Hobbit movies, based on J.R.R. Tolkein’s prequel novel to The Lord of the Rings.

The director cited delays in starting production in announcing the move, though says he will remain as a writer on the planned two-film series, which is being produced by ( Read more... )

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nekopirate June 2 2010, 16:59:24 UTC

He's also written one of the best Vampire books EVER! Highly suggest picking it up as an audio book seeing how it's read by Ron Perlman.

dave_iii June 3 2010, 14:34:02 UTC

What kind of vampire? Are we talking sparkles or hissing bald people? ^_^

I need to pack up about 3-4 friends disgruntledgrrl June 2 2010, 17:08:53 UTC

Head over to Matt's and start recording various outtakes of "The Hobbit: Directed by...."
Quentin Tarantino
George Lucas (recycles the ewok costumes)
James Camaron (whaddaya mean he went and got a REAL dragon? And it filiming is in an ACTIVE volanco??!)

David -ohgod- Lynch

Re: I need to pack up about 3-4 friends dave_iii June 3 2010, 14:30:02 UTC

*snerk* Oh, I'm sure there's hours of possibilities there. ^_^

seagull2eagle June 2 2010, 18:29:05 UTC

I read about that last night. :( It's a totally bummer, but understandable. If it takes three years to film out there and now it's at six years and counting... that's too long for him to be out of the business. It's really too bad, though - he's a great director and would have done great things with The Hobbit.

dave_iii June 3 2010, 14:32:55 UTC

I dunno... I've only seen Pan's Labyrinth but that seems awful dark to be compared with The Hobbit. Not saying he's a bad director, just the opposite.. but perhaps not the right style.

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dave_iii June 3 2010, 14:29:32 UTC

Symmetrical, certainly. I've always thought of The Hobbit as a different kind of story, lighter and fluffier than Lord Of The Rings, so a different director would actually work to its benefit, IMHO. Peter should be intimately involved, most assuredly, but someone else would bring a different angle on things.

I wasn't completely sold on del Toro to begin with for that reason, actually. Pan's Labyrinth was a very very well made movie, but was very very NOT a light and fluffy movie. Maybe Chris Columbus of Harry Potter fame... that would work.