A number of critics I was sitting near, exclaimed at the end of “Hellboy 2: The Golden Army,” that this movie was an audition as well as proof of how good Guillermo del Toro’s version of “The Hobbit,” could be. I certainly hope it was neither. Going to the zoo and expecting the polar bear and the zebra to look and behave alike will leave viewers puzzled and unhappy with both animals. Continue reading “Film review: ‘Hellboy 2’ is good-time cinema, isn’t ‘The Hobbit’”
Day: July 11, 2008
Forummer Empedocles has found a video interview (divided in 12 parts) with Guillermo del Toro in Rotten Tomatoes. This particular one touches several interesting points ranging from his views on talking animals in The Hobbit, to how the power of the Ring will be shown in the movie.
Parts one through 6 are now up, the following 6 parts coming in the weekend. Part 5 of the interview seems like the one with most “new” information that concerns The Hobbit, so take a look! [Rotten Tomatoes interview index] [Interview part 5]
Libby sends in this alert for anyone who will be in the LA/Pasadena area on Saturday, July 26: Hello! I hope all is well at The One Ring. I am forwarding details, in case it’s of interest to your LA-based readers. As part of the FREE Old Pasadena Film Festival this summer, the entire LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy will be screened outside from night-til-dawn, followed by a “Hobbit Breakfast”
Are you sure that isn’t going to be a Second Breakfast, Libby? Complete details can be found at the Old Pasadena Film Festival site.
We’ve been alerted to several interviews with Guilllermo Del Toro in which he has confirmed plans for a second Hobbit movie. Simon, from “Den of Geek” sent in a preview of an interview they’ll publish next Tuesday in which they asked the director whether a second film was in doubt. According to GDT: “Absolutely, categorically not to my knowledge. There’s going to be a second film, but the shape of what it is and how it happens will be determined by the process.”
Upping the ante, message board member Dive Twin pointed us to an interview at IGN where Guillermo teased fans with this comment about M2:
“That is the film that most belongs as a joining effort to the trilogy. And that’s the film we’re going to work the hardest on in the next six months. There are many more questions than there are answers at this stage. But in my heart of hearts, I believe we found a way to do it. I don’t want to spoil it. I’m not being coy and I’m not faking it. I really think we found it, but I’m not at liberty or at a place where I feel it should be discussed.”
Read the full interviews at “Den of Geek” and IGN, then join us in our Barliman’s chatroom or on our Hobbit Movie discussion board to speculate on just what Del Toro, PJ, Fran and Phillipa have in mind.