A little over a month ago Guillermo del Toro was directing the Hobbit and though there is no news of that changing I was surprised today to find out it still isn’t set in stone.
“At this stage anything I say is of no consequence for I am not yet signed to do ‘The Hobbit.’ Negotiations advance but are still ongoing,” he said.
He added, “All I can say is that I am diligently going through all Tolkien material related to Middle-earth but only as a way of bridging a gap in my reading. I still respond the strongest to ‘The Hobbit,’ but as an avid reader of Mythology I find a lot of his other writings fascinating. A perfect Cosmology forged from very eclectic sources.”
Maybe these things usually take this long, but really its been a while since the intentions were made, and the boy is doing his homework like its already a done deal.
But really. Papers are not done? He resists commenting publicly because of the lack of official deals. Granted he did cover those tracks with a “but negotiations are going well” tag perhaps in case someone perceived his statement as positioning.
What do you think? No big deal? Everything fine?
Or is this taking too long to sign papers?
