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Grey Pilgrim · Posted: 01/30/2008, 02:42 Post subject: Looks like Guillermo is Official!

Well Smaug old friend (and all of my newer friends here), it looks like its confirmed almost entirely beyond a shadow of a doubt.
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2008/01/29/28329-introducing-the-director-of-the-hobbit/

I for one am quite pleased with the news and I trust (and sincerely hope) that all of the old cast from LOTR will in all probability be on board for the Hobbit under Guillermo's direction.

I am off to celebrate with some longbottom leaf!
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Shortround · Troll Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

He has not directed a good movie yet. He has done some pretty movies but nothing that I would say good.
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Grey Pilgrim · Posted: 01/30/2008, 21:18 Post subject:

My friend, Del Toro directed Blade 2, the best installment in the trilogy by far (not saying much that it is better then the horrendous 3rd one of course lol). Del Toro also did a masterful job with "Hell Boy," a movie based on a kind of silly comic book that could have been ultra dumb but instead turned out rather entertaining.

Pan's Labyrinth was phenomenal and the only reason it got flak was because people went to the movies expecting a happy go lucky "El Narnia" or something, and what they got was dark and frightening for many. I for one think he will be fantastic as the director for these movies, making the travails under the mountain, through Mirkwood and ESPECIALLY Smaug, extremely dark and frightening, doing justice to a book unfairly labeled a "children's tale."

Also, just as a little aside, what of Peter Jackson's could you have pointed out as being "good" prior to the Lord of the Rings?

Indeed, that is what I suspected....
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Shortround · Troll Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

I read this on another post and it gives me some hope.

http://fusedfilmblog.com/2008/01/29/i-cant-wait-to-be-disappointed-with-the-hobbit-1-and-20/#comment-25

http://fusedfilmblog.com/2008/01/29/i-cant-wait-to-be-disappointed-with-the-hobbit-1-and-20/#comment-26

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Baggins · Troll Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 12

its del toro
http://imdb.com/title/tt0903624/
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Smaug · Dragon Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 327 Location: Erebor

Probably it's really Del Toro, but I wouldn't believe imdb a word. They tend to publish rumors as facts.
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Shortround · Troll Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

I thought this might spur some debate.

http://fusedfilmblog.com/2008/01/31/fused-extra-one-ring-rules-them-all-hobbit-falls-short/

screams · Posted: 01/31/2008, 18:40 Post subject:

Shortround · Troll Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

I could see him as the archer

KingUnderTheMountain · Goblin Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 2

I have mixed feelings about this...

But I'm willing to give Del Toro a chance...

But so help me God, if he ruins this for me, I will hunt him down, because I have been waiting for this for years.

Eliana · Dwarf Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 191

You are not alone in this. I also will be very angry and disappointed if these movies are awful. One thing to remember, however, is that Jackson is there and will probably call the shots, or most of them. If the two can work together, then something good will hopefully come out of all this waiting, wondering and conjecture.

screams · Posted: 02/01/2008, 18:21 Post subject:

I'm glad that at least if The Hobbit movies are not very good the LOTR trilogy will not change.
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merton · Goblin Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 8

If Del Toro (GDT) is their man then so be it. It appears that PJ will be associate Dir so that may help. Some of the reading I've done worries me a bit because GDT isn't a fan of LOTR - he said it was too dense. He did claim to love the Hobbit which is good. I keep remembering that I felt what made LOTR movies soooo great (if flawed from a purist point of view) was the writers and directors LOVE for the world the Professor created. It was the density and complexity and their taking the time to understand it all that drove their creativity. Perhaps GDT will create from that same feeling for the book he says he liked. The bother, founded or not, comes from the need for a second movie that is supposedly intended to "link" Bilbo's great adventure with that of his nephew's years later. That transition,it seems to me, will require a sense of the middle earth we know from LOTR and I only hope that PJ can help GDT appreciate it that way it needs to be appreciated for the screen.
When all is said and done we will get a movie that will be rated buy fans thumbs up or down. It matters little because there will always be a set of volumes on my bookshelf whose pages know what it is to be turned.
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Shortround · Troll Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

Did GDT sign a deal for both hobbit movies?