Guillermo Del Toro

Tobey Maguire Swapping Spiderman For Bilbo?

Published on: 18th January, 2010

The Sun newspaper, a major tabloid here in the UK is today running a story that claims Tobey Maguire of Spiderman fame is to play the Bilbo Baggins role in The Hobbit.
The rumours have been doing the rounds for about a month but by and large were written off because of the upcoming fourth Spiderman [...]

Del Toro Feels No Hobbit Movie Pressure

Published on: 10th June, 2009

Guillermo Del Toro was on Simon Mayo’s Radio 5 Live show today in the UK and told Simon he isn’t feeling any pressure working on The Hobbit movie.
The Director of The Hobbit also claimed that he’s not worried about having his Hobbit movies compared to the critical and commercial success reached by Peter Jackson’s Lord [...]

Del Toro Discusses Hobbit Movies

Published on: 14th October, 2008

Guillermo Del Toro is certainly the man in demand and it seems his career is mapped out for at least a decade. He heads off to New Zealand in just a few weeks now and The Hobbit movies will be his life for several years to come.
As if that wasn’t enough job security, he’s also [...]

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 [...]

Is Del Toro The Man For Middle Earth

Published on: 10th May, 2008

Now that the dust has settled on the announcement of Del Toro directing and people have had time to reflect, most seem happy with the choice although there have been a few points raised worth mentioning from Andrew O’Hehir at Salon.
He goes on about how Del Toro told him in a previous interview that he [...]

More Hobbit Speak From Del Toro

Published on: 29th April, 2008

“My message is simple: If you don’t think Peter did a fabulous job, very likely you won’t think I will. If you think he did, I will do my best to make you proud of me.” Del Toro talking to MTV
I’d say that could be classed as putting your cards on the table Its [...]

Can Guillermo Del Toro Conquer Middle Earth

Published on: 25th April, 2008

So now its official I can stop wondering who will be directing and start worrying if Del Toro will be able to do The Hobbit movies justice?
Lets remember that by the time the first Hobbit movie is released it could well be the most eagerly awaited movie ever made.
At first look he seems the perfect choice to replace Peter [...]