Guillermo Del Toro has announced that he is no longer going to direct the Hobbit or indeed the second LOTR related film due to delays in it's production caused by the difficulties surround MGM. He shall continue to act as one of the screenwriters however. The announcement at theonering.net is below.
I think this is a rather sad development, as I felt Del Toro's style was ideally suited to the Hobbit movie. I now wonder who will take over and how long will it be until filming can actually begin
I think this is a rather sad development, as I felt Del Toro's style was ideally suited to the Hobbit movie. I now wonder who will take over and how long will it be until filming can actually begin
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Del Toro departs Hobbit film
- 31/05/2010 09:51:28 AM
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I understand that the following names are named most often
- 31/05/2010 10:27:27 AM
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Tim Burton would suck, Cuaron is ok, Jackson makes the most sense. *NM*
- 31/05/2010 02:57:16 PM
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Re: Del Toro departs Hobbit film
- 31/05/2010 07:16:55 PM
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I thought Benicio del Toro was leaving. Whew! He's still in the project, right? *NM*
- 01/06/2010 10:44:46 PM
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Yeah. He's playing Bilbo. *NM*
- 01/06/2010 11:18:20 PM
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Glad to hear he still is. He needed something after that awful movie, Che.
- 02/06/2010 12:43:38 AM
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I bet the Hobbit will be made into a movie long before GRRM's aDwD comes out. -_- *NM*
- 02/06/2010 12:54:29 AM
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Isn't he the idiot to blame for Prisoner of Azkaban? Good riddance. *NM*
- 02/06/2010 04:15:14 AM
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No, del Toro is Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy.
- 02/06/2010 08:10:00 AM
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So he's made one good movie and one atrocious one.
- 03/06/2010 01:32:50 AM
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- 03/06/2010 01:32:50 AM
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I haven't seen Hellboy.
- 03/06/2010 04:25:45 AM
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I'm sure he meant Pan's Labyrinth was the good one. Hellboy sucked big floppy donkey dicks. *NM*
- 03/06/2010 05:27:03 AM
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PoA was better than the movies after it, surely.
- 02/06/2010 08:36:14 PM
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Disagree. PoA was better than tCoS, but that's because Chamber was a travesty of a novel.
- 03/06/2010 01:32:31 AM
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How can you claim it's better than the later movies?
- 03/06/2010 09:39:28 AM
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It's funny how people can't agree on this ever
- 03/06/2010 10:20:13 AM
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- 03/06/2010 10:20:13 AM
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Because I liked Order of the Phoenix a lot.
- 04/06/2010 06:08:19 AM
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It's funny how your opinion is the exact opposite of Darth Katie's.
- 04/06/2010 10:22:28 AM
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Bellatrix and Luna are my least favorite parts of the Harry Potter movies.
- 04/06/2010 11:41:56 PM
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... and the exact opposite of mine, evidently.
- 04/06/2010 11:54:35 PM
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- 04/06/2010 11:54:35 PM
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The Batman comic hasn't been for children since at least the 80s. The Dark Knight definitely wasn't.
- 05/06/2010 09:28:16 AM
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I happen to think Prisoner of Azkaban is the only good HP movie made, yet. *NM*
- 04/06/2010 03:08:10 AM
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I liked the scenery, which was bland in the first two films. HBP was my fave Potter film, though *NM*
- 04/06/2010 11:32:36 AM
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