Trawling through all the Sundance Festival news stories for any Hobbit movie gossip, I found several interviews with Guillermo Del Toro but he managed to side step all Hobbit questions. With all this practice, he’s getting quite good at dancing around all queries concerning Middle Earth.
I had just about given up on finding anything of note when I came across this little gem of an interview with Dominic Monaghan by MTV.
“They really want us to come back, and I think there’s a really strong chance that we might be back,” Monaghan happily told the reporter who quickly dropped any thoughts of questioning Monaghan about his latest film which he was at the festival to promote.
‘They’ being Elijah Wood, Sean Astin and Billy Boyd who together with Monaghan played the original 4 Hobbits in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
He went on:
“It’s being produced by Peter Jackson, who obviously made the first films, and his special-effects company are making it. It’s directed by Guillermo del Toro, who I think, outside of Peter Jackson, would be the number one person to give this any amount of the tenderness that it deserves. Obviously, Ian McKellen’s going to be back for it, and Andy Serkis is going to be back for it.”
If at this point you are thinking as I was “Well that’s because they are in The Hobbit where as Frodo, Sam, Pippin and Merry aren’t, he went on to explain how he expects it to work:
“We’re not in ‘The Hobbit,’ no, but I think the idea in their heads (Jackson and Co.) is that the trilogy of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ films was so beloved by the fans that they’re really keen to try to say thank you for the support that they gave to the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies and possibly bring back some of those characters that they know and love.”
Apparently he’s been chatting with Jackson and the other writers so it sounds like it is at least being considered for what you would assume/imagine/hope is the second Hobbit movie although at no point does he mention the second movie.
I wonder if he was supposed to let quite so much slip, or in true Meriadoc style has he put his foot in it?
Source: MTV Movies
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