Shawn Adler over at the MTV Movie Blog is going to have an opportunity to interview Guillermo del Toro next week and he wants you to submit your questions:
Now it’s time to return the favor. Next week I’ll be speaking with newly minted “Hobbit” director Guillermo Del Toro, and I want you to give me some good questions that I can bring with me. No fair repeating a question he answered in our last chat or in his recent Q&A – we want news. So fire away, Tolkien fans. If you leave a name, I’ll tell him it came from you, and we’ll post video of his response online.
Read the full article over at the MTV Movie Blog. [Read More]
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Can’t quite visualize that? Believe it or not, that’s one of the many casting rumors that was sent to TORn in June of 1999, reported in the Sunday Star Times no less. Now that the casting rumor mill has started anew for The Hobbit and ‘F2,’ message board member diedye thought it would be fun to re-visit some of the old news reported on TORn in times past. Do you remember the first photos of Sam and Frodo on Mt. Doom from June of 2000? Did you know Bruce Willis was rumored to have petitioned PJ for a part in LOTR? With a few items sprinkled in from Tolkien’s letters and other sources, this makes for a fun trip down memory lane. Stay tuned for regular installments!
Continue reading “TORn Flashback June 9-14: Keanu Reeves or Danny DiVito as Gandalf?”
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Red tape could be the only thing between film director Peter Jackson and the expansion of his Miramar-based movie-making studios. A stretch of land on the Miramar Peninsula, encompassing the run-down former defence base at Shelly Bay and Wellington Prison, has been tipped as the scene of Jackson’s next development. The land is owned by the Defence Force, Corrections Department and Wellington City Council. But the lands trust for Te Atiawa, the Tenths Trust, is negotiating with the Government for the return of land as part of its Treaty of Waitangi claim. Tenths Trust looking for Jackson deal
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Message board member Arwen’s daughter recently posted: The July 2008 issue of Geek Monthly (which isn’t up on their website yet) has a big Hellboy II special, and includes an interview with GdT. And, like any good geek, they thought to ask him about The Hobbit. Here are the Hobbit specific portions, but the full interview has a lot of great insight into his filmmaking.
Geek Monthly: Speaking of magic, now that you’re doing the two Hobbit films, what’s the appeal of that property?
GDT: When I was a kid, I bought The Hobbit and I bought Lord of the Rings at the same time. I used my hard-earned allowance, and I was about 11.
Continue reading “Del Toro talks “The Hobbit” in Geek Monthly”
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Thanks to Ringer Mallory A for sending us this tidbit from IMDB.com today:
Edward Norton has credited blockbuster trilogy The Lord Of The Rings with convincing him to accept his role in big-budget movie The Incredible Hulk. The star, noted for roles in edgier films such as Fight Club and American History X, was hesitant to take on the big screen comic book adaptation. But he insists it was filmmaker Peter Jackson’s version of epic fantasy series The Lord of the Rings that helped him make his decision.
Read the full story over at IMDB.com. [Read More]
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‘The Hobbit’ Director Guillermo del Toro will be featured on a Starz documentary titled ‘Comic Books Unbound’ at 10pm EST on Tuesday.
“Comic Books Unbound”, a Starz Originals production, looks at the evolution of Hollywoods revolutionary adaptations of famous and infamous comic book characters and storylines. With Selma Blair, Roger Corman, Guillermo Del Toro. 2008, TV14, USA
Keep an eye out for actor Ron Perlman, who will most likely be involved in ‘The Hobbit’ films in some capacity as well. [Starz]
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