Guillermo Del Toro Ready For The Hobbit Movie
Written by ady on August 10, 2008 – 10:59 am -
Despite a huge fan base from the original Hellboy movie and the news that Del Toro would next be doing The Hobbit movie now becoming common knowledge, Hellboy 2 has been dissapointing the money men at the box office. Coming in second to the White Bishop (or is it Dark Knight?) was probably expected but it also trailed Journey To The Center Of The Earth and Step Brothers which I doubt was expected.
Del Toro though is already thinking ahead to The Hobbit. This morning he has a piece in The Times On Sunday primarily to promote the release of Hellboy 2 on the 20th August in the UK but the subject of The Hobbit movie soon comes up and he tells The Times he cannot serve up a Peter Jackson film.
“I’m trying to be faithful to what I read when I was young. That’s The Hobbit I’m serving. I cannot serve a Peter Jackson film. We also hope to bridge the trilogy. We will create an expansion of what lies in the four books and in a number of appendices. I’m not going to New Zealand for two years to do one movie. I’m going there for four years.”
The Times went on to ask whether he will make room in The Hobbit Movies for the kind of evocative symbolism he’s known for in all his other movies and he replies, “Of course I will…It’s a proclivity, a compulsion.”
“That’s what I love about fairytales; they tell the truth, not organised politics, religion or economics. Those things destroy the soul,” Del Toro says. “That is the idea from Pan’s Labyrinth and it surfaces in Hellboy and, to some degree, in all my films. I don’t think it’s a conscious decision, it’s a proclivity, a compulsion.”
Tags: Guillermo Del Toro, hellboy 2, the hobbit, The Hobbit Movie
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August 10th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Omg I cannot wait. They need to start asap. I want to see the movie!!!! Good luck with the making. Wow, four years in New Zealand….del Toro is taking this seriously…that’s good. Any new people in casting?
August 11th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I am hoping that the decision to make two movies and to “bridge” the Hobbit with LOTR does not make the second Hobbit movie seem like a money grab. Do we really need a “bridge” from The Hobbot to the LOTR? The only major events I can think of that are not fleshed out in either book are the battle between The White Council and The Necromancer, the rebuilding of Dale and The Dwarf Kingdom under Erebor, and Sauron’s Grand Reopening of Mordor. Wait! What am I saying, there is a ton of material for two movies…go Del Toro!
August 16th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Firstly, Del Toro congrats on getting the “nod” on making the hobbit movie(s). Don’t worry about the response to Hell Boy 2 - the Hobbit is a totally different “kettle of fish” with a much bigger following in the world. I know I’m not following on from the above conversation but despite all, I am really looking forward to the release of the Hobbit movie(s). Further to this, I think that this may have already been said in a number of ways (and times) and I strongly (strongly) only want to pass on please (please) Del Toro do not “Jack” the films. That is, Tolkien spent a lot of his time (and life) editing, re-editing and writing on the whole Middle Earth universe (and books) - getting them perfect and making the books entertaining, thus nothing needed to be change. Despite what many people say about making film’s exactly as they are written in the book(s) please ignore this because I’m sure the film(s) will be successful regardless (based also on what the Harry Potter films achieved).I mean, the LoR films where great but the variances from the books that where introduced (by Jackson) in them almost made myself and many others that I know want to “boycott” the films. I mean some things in the films , the Elve’s at helms deep - they were not there in the books, the watcher in the water (homage to Ray Harryhausen) or the troll in Moria - it was only really a troll’s foot that should have been shown - not to mention that the homage dedication should have been the “sequences” of Shelob instead. The allocation of money and screen time that would have been used in these “Jacked” parts of the film should have been better used for maybe even Tom Bombadil or more on the barrow downs. And the whole helm’s deep “sequence” (build up etc) should have been a lot shorter - remember this wasn’t really the major battle of the 3rd age - again more time & money that should have been spent elsewhere. So as a final plea (from all Tolkien fans) please keep the Hobbit film the same as the Hobbit book.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
More than any other modern day actor, I would like to see Ian Holmes play Bilbo if at all feasible. If not Ian Holmes, than an unknown, younger, doppelganger of Ian Holmes.
In my humble opinion, using a highly recognizable “known” actor will detract from the character and all of us loyal LOTR fans will only be thinking “THAT is NOT Bilbo Baggins”, that is the guy from Narnia or Bridgett Jones, etc., etc., etc.
I am a big fan of ALL Del Toro films (really liked “The Orphanage”!). However, I am concerned that he will make the Hobbit look too much like one of his films and not match Peter Jackson’s wonderful, realistically magical LOTR at all.
After what us “older” Tolkien fans went through with the horrible cartoon versions of LOTR and The Hobbit, I would absolutely hate for Del Toro’s “Hobbit” to be as disappointing as those were and for a Tolkien heir to have to buy up this rendition to get it off the market and make way to yet another attempt.
I also heartily agree that more effort should be made to be true to the book! However, despite some of the discrepancies between the books and the movies, the look, dialog and feel of the LOTR movies was unparalleled. When sticking to Tolkien-esque dialog, it becomes like music and poetry to one’s ears.
In any case, I wish Guillermo Del Toro the best of luck with this monumental film and hope I live long enough to see it and that it is worth the wait!!!!!!!!!
August 18th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
i agree with “nmd1″ i hope Del Toro doesn’t make the movie too dark. its a quite happy and lighthearted book in many cases and i hope Del Toro can capture that. On that note “Spiders and Flies” will be simply amazing in the eyes of Del Toro. im excited to see what he does with that chapter as well as all the other chapters dealing with Mirkwood.
any thoughts?
p.s. i agree, those cartoons where painful to watch haha