Del Toro Talks Smaug

Published on: 5th October, 2008

Guilermo Del Toro has been telling The Directors Guild of America about how he finds inspiration for his movies and how his love of dragons is driving him on to make something special when it comes to creating Smaug.
“It’s such a powerful symbol, and in the context of ‘The Hobbit’ it is used to cast [...]

Andy Serkis Talks About Gollum

Published on: 28th September, 2008

Andy Serkis talks about taking up the challenge of Gollum again.

The Hobbit Is 71 Today

Published on: 21st September, 2008

Today is the aniversary of The Hobbit first reaching the bookshelves in the UK. September 21st, 1937 was the day the world was introduced to a world of Dwarves, Wizards and Hobbits although it had been a full 9 years since Tolkien had first scribbled the words “In a hole in the ground there lived [...]

Viggo Mortenson Won’t Share Aragorn Role

Published on: 9th September, 2008

After John Noble says no, Viggo Mortenson says yes! Viggo admitted to Channel 3 news in New Zealand that he believes his Lord Of The Rings character Aragorn may well have a part in the second of the Hobbit movies and if he does, he wants the part again.
“Obviously if you’ve established a character yourself, [...]

John Noble Says No To The Hobbit Movies

Published on: 27th August, 2008

John Noble is the second actor who had a major role in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy to publicly state that he wouldn’t return to Middle Earth should Del Toro make the call.
His character Denethor doesn’t make an appearance in The Hobbit but Del Toro has hinted the second movie could feature the story [...]

Jackson And Co To Write Screen Play

Published on: 20th August, 2008

I would have put money on it anyway but today it was confirmed that the same team that wrote the Lord Of The Rings screen play (Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens) will also write the 2 Hobbit movies together with Guillermo Del Toro of course.
The official press release states that Jackson and Del [...]

The Hobbit Movies Special Effects

Published on: 19th August, 2008

Guillermo Del Toro says he plans to keep to traditional special effects such as model making and real world workshop effects once work gets underway on The Hobbit movie.
“You have to be very careful not to rely on a single tool – and this is another thing that I share a passion for with Peter [...]

Guillermo Del Toro Ready For The Hobbit Movie

Published on: 10th August, 2008

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 [...]

Sir Ian McKellen Confirms His Return To Middle Earth

Published on: 22nd July, 2008

Not that we really needed it but Empire mag. is today announcing it is confirmed Sir Ian McKellen will reprise the role of Gandalf for The Hobbit movies.
They caught up with the actor at a special screening of The Dark Knight in London and as usual the legend had quite a bit to say about [...]

Christpher Lee Talks About Middle Earth

Published on: 13th July, 2008

Christopher Lee says while he wants to return to Middle Earth, but he doesn’t want to travel all the way to New Zealand to do it. He almost sounds tired talking about the long trip from his home in London.
He would like to get the part of the voice of Smaug though. He talks about [...]

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