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.”
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