Guillermo Del Toro
Hobbit movie news
You may have heard of the Hobbit movie that is under way currently, directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Peter Jackson. You may also have heard that the movie is in some danger, due to a lawsuit brought by Tolkien’s family. Luckily, Salon.com’s Andrew O’Hehir is casting some light on the matter.
If there’s one thing I’m sure about in this exceedingly murky, high-stakes poker game, it’s that no one at the table is foolish enough to want to shut down a production that promises to yield, at a conservative estimate, an additional $2 billion to $3 billion in worldwide revenue. What the Tolkiens and Time Warner are fighting over is who controls that production and who will reap the enormous benefits.
So don’t worry it won’t get made – everyone wants the cash.
Hobbit movie news
(via A Dribble of Ink)
Empire have posted some tidbits of movie news about The Hobbit. BAsically the book we all know and love will be split into two films:
“We’ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur,” says Del Toro.
“We decided it would be a mistake to try to cram everything into one movie,” adds Jackson. “The essential brief was to do The Hobbit, and it allows us to make The Hobbit in a little more style, if you like, of the [LOTR] trilogy.”
So no all new bridging film which will make Tolkien purists happy – I would have been sort of interested to see what they came up with.