Paul over at Dark Horizons had a chance to interview Guillermo del Toro on topics ranging from Hellboy II to The Hobbit films. Among ‘The Hobbit’ topics covered: Ron Perlman’s possible involvement; What attracted GDT to The Hobbit; Content of the second film; Relocating to NZ. Jump on over to Dark Horizons for the full interview. [Full Interview]
Category: Hobbit Movie
MTVRinger Diedye spotted this posting at MTV.com. Remember a few weeks ago when the MTV Movie Blog was soliciting questions from fans? Well, looks like they asked some of those questions and got some answers. You can view the video above and read the full story at MTV.com. [Read More]
Los Angeles (E! Online) – The two movies based on the Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, may be a long ways off—hang on until 2011 and 2012, nerds!—but they’re pretty much all Mexican director Guillermo del Toro gets to talk about these days. Sure, he’s out promoting this summer’s comic book flick Hellboy II: The Golden Army, but, like, what’s up with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf and that dragon?
We got the big scoop from del Toro himself at the Saturn Awards, where he received a lifetime achievement award. Here’s what he told us about The Hobbit’s casting, creatures and story:
First of all, expect some crazy new creatures. If you’ve seen Hellboy or his epic Pan’s Labyrinth, you know del Toro would go beyond Orcs and talking trees. He promises to respect J.R.R. Tolkien’s and Peter Jackson’s creations, but sees many more new ones. “I plan to bring myself to The Hobbit,” he said. “No doubt about that.” Hobbit Director del Toro Talks Cast, Creatures
Last week Guillermo Del Toro was on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ to promote ‘Hellboy II: The Golden Army’. Jimmy and GDT touched a little on The Hobbit, and despite my desperate attempts to get him to give a ‘shout out’ to TORN, it didn’t happen. Another interesting bit of news is that GDT plans on releasing a book filled with his sketches, notes and ideas from all his films..sound like a great idea! Take a look at the YouTubeed version of the interview here. Continue reading “TV Watch: GDT On Jimmy Kimmel”
GandalfX86 writes: WETA Digital has 4 new supercomputers in the TOP500-List on top500.org (Rank 219 to 222). This is interesting because they will perhaps render the 3d-animations for the Hobbit on these computers.
Forummer Elven has shared with us a great piece that appeared in MTV Movies Blog. In interview, Doug Jones, a regular in Guillermo del Toro’s movies, and better known for his roles as Silver Surfer, Abe Sapien in Hellboy and the Faun in Pan’s Labyrinth, said that while nothing is official yet,
“There’s been lots of speculation. I wouldn’t want to ruin anything. Guillermo creates things with me in mind and he’s got a better image of what I can do than I do,” […] “However, there might be an elf king, father of Legolas kind of character that I would love.”
That would be King Thranduil of Mirkwood. What do you think? Do you like Doug Jones as the Elven King? Come discuss it in our forums! [MTV Movies Blog] [TORn Forums] [Doug Jones on imdb.com]