Comments on: Guillermo Del Toro Dishes About The Hobbit

By: vargas

vargas — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:10:14 +0000

I’m intrigued about how Del Toro will go about making the second Hobbit film or the sequel. Will he use source material from The Silmarillion? The Appendices from the Lord of the Rings? I wonder.

I’m with Mike. I hope Del Toro continues to remember that this is ultimately Tolkien’s work throughout filming and production. It’s easy to let ego get in the way and insert yourself into a project like this. I still wish Jackson was directing but I think that Del Toro will bring some interesting ideas and a different fantasy style to the films.

By: DAVE

DAVE — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:34:56 +0000

I agree with many of you who have expressed concerns about the possibility of Del Toro making The Hobbit all Pan’s Labyrinth-ish. It’s not that I don’t dig the man’s style–Hellboy and the rest of his projects have been awesome–I just hope he attempts to maintain a strong sense of continuity between the LOTR films and this prequel. Essentially: Don’t pull a Lucas!

Also, with all due respect to Gavin, Tom Bombadil does NOT need to make an appearance. Jackson was wise not to include the character in The Fellowship of the Ring (though his songs are awesome).

By: Amish_Bill

Amish_Bill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:15:28 +0000

I just equipped my “Helm of Anticipation +3″.

By: emilyk

emilyk — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:36:47 +0000

I had an elven paladin in D&D that slayed Tiamat. It was very epic :)

Can’t wait to see what Del Toro brings to the Hobbit. I’m actually pleased to hear it won’t exactly be kid friendly.

By: tonguecutsparrow

tonguecutsparrow — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:07:33 +0000

I remember on a podcast sometime last year John was mentioning that he couldn’t wait for Sam Raimi to get on board with “The Hobbit”, while the whole time I was thinking “Please choose del Toro. Raimi is a hack…”

And while we have enough evidence that Peter Jackson is a genius, here he goes putting the right man for the job into the directorial position of “The Hobbit”.

This is great news. I would not like to see somebody trying to rip of Jackson’s style (although I know WETA had a lot to do with it, and they’ll play a major part in the production here, as well). But like Mike posted earlier, as long as del Toro doesn’t go high-and-to-the-right with it, I think “The Hobbit” and its sequel will be great additions to the “Lord Of the Rings” trilogy.

By: Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:31 +0000

This has me worried. I REALLY hoppe he doesn’t deviate TOO much from the source material in this area. Tolkine wrote in good adversaries for the story. Del Toro doesn’t need to go making up weird stuff to fill it out.

By: Gavin Bollard

Gavin Bollard — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:01:05 +0000

Given that they’re going to include extra material – not just the hobbit story, I’d love to see barrow-wights and Tom Bombadil….

By: Torim

Torim — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:41:57 +0000

@mike although i see where your fear stems from, i do remember him mentioning that he will stay true to tolkien and peter jacksons vision. (which in my mind means no wacky random stuff that just pops into his head) Hopefully he will slightly change the appearances of things that we have already seen and fell in love with, like ogres, orcs and some of the terrain as they will be traveling to a different part of middle earth. Seeing the same design of the monsters as in the first three movies will just make it dull and stale, hopefully he can make it so that everything is fresh and new but yet familiar

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:11:44 +0000

This is TERRIBLE news. We don’t need this film to be “Bilbo visits Pan’s Labyrinth with Hellboy.”

I love the artistic style played up in his ‘fantasy’ films, but I will be very disappointed to see monsters that do no fit in with the classic fantasy feel laid down in the original novels, or the recent film trilogy.

Giant spiders, trolls, goblins, elves, humans, giant birds, a dragon…thats great. A dude with 90 ideas all over his face…not in the Hobbit thanks.

By: Andee23

Andee23 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:43:12 +0000

Correction

This is great news, I just wonder how he is going to approach “The Battle of Five Armies”.