{"id":30296,"date":"2008-10-16T22:39:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T03:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30296"},"modified":"2008-10-18T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T16:43:52","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-i%e2%80%99m-so-voracious-about-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/10\/16\/30296-guillermo-del-toro-i%e2%80%99m-so-voracious-about-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro: “I\u2019m so voracious about The Hobbit!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Guillermo Del Toro was recently in New York City as part of the New Yorker Festival and our good pal Anthony Moody from Indalo Productions<\/a><\/strong> caught up with him to talk all things Hobbit! In this first part of the interview GDT talks about his writing duties with PJ, Tom Bombadil and the possibility of a THIRD Hobbit movie(?!). Stay tuned for the second part of this interview next week! More follow later next week as well! <\/p>\n

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Transcription for theOneRing.net by Elven \u2013 Deleece C<\/em><\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> Great! This is Anthony Moody interviewing Guillermo del Toro for the OneRing.net<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> Great view!<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> Fantastic view! We\u2019re in the Penthouse Suite at the Royalton Hotel and ah ..<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> The Chrysler Building <\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> [continued] The Chrysler Building and Rock Centre …<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> … Quetzaqoatl (The Movie) ..<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> That\u2019s right, Quetzaqoatl \u2013 exactly \u2013 that\u2019s colossal \u2013 exactly – I love it. So last we heard, the writing process had officially started ..<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> Yes!<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> And if I may quote you, you said \u201cIt keeps transforming and changing and it is the most beautiful writing experience of my life, I\u2019m enjoying it tremendously.\u201d <\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> Yeah!<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> What\u2019s the latest?<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> That\u2019s the whole truth! <\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> [laughs] Well that\u2019s good!<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> Well right now, I\u2019m travelling to New Zealand next week. We have laid out a full set of cards \u2013 3 x 5\u2019s \u2013 and there is I think a good template for what we\u2019re tracking in the two movies. You know, there\u2019s a lot of stuff obviously [smile in his voice] that I could but I shouldn\u2019t talk about \u2013 [Anthony laughs \u201cof course\u201d] I apologize for having to be coy about this thing. Normally, I am just completely absolutely open about the process. But, I think The Hobbit is a movie where, or movies, that where you have to be cautious \u2013 and I think that what we can reveal \u2013 (that) that\u2019s the layout. Peter \u2013 we\u2019re working on both fronts, they\u2019re working on some of the load, I\u2019m working on some of the load of the writing, and we\u2019re going to meet there, and we\u2019re going to come out with a much bigger document than what we have now. Our hopes are still that in the next six seven months we can have enough of our structured draft that we can then go on and budget.. <\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> And so, in six or seven months, a Film One or both Films?<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> Well no, the idea is to essentially if we can, to just treat it like \u2013 because they\u2019re going to be shot back to back \u2013 to treat it like a single project.<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> I see. And, I understand if you can\u2019t say it, but I\u2019ll ask \u2013 Do you have a sense currently where the first film will end and where the second film will begin and time lines? \u2013 That\u2019s essentially decided?<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> The answer is \u2018yes\u2019 \u2013 and that\u2019s about it. [Laughs]<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> [laughs] Fair Enough.<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> I think that some of the stuff that you can affirm at this stage, if it changes [exclamation] it\u2019s tragic that you already said something else. As I said in the other interview, it is changing all the time [Anthony:<\/strong> \u201csure\u201d] and the more we discover about this, the more it transforms \u2013 but the greatest thing for me is that; at inception I was really – I was in a position that was completely open at it being one film or it being two films. I was not dogmatic about that. Now I know that it feels perfectly legitimate, and for me right now, that it is two films, and the way they integrate feels perfectly legitimate. If it didn\u2019t, as I said in past interviews, I would have said so. And I feel right now that\u2019s the great revelation \u2013 That this thing is told in a beautiful way and really seems to be \u2013 umm \u2013 seems to grow into the existing trilogy in a great way.<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> And speaking of trilogies, has there been a point in the process so far where you\u2019ve had even an inkling that maybe in fact that there are three films in here? ..<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> No..<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> [continued] .. and is that a remote possibility?<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> No. No, I don\u2019t believe it even on the remote horizon. Because, this, the whole time we .. the first thing we agreed upon \u2013 all of us \u2013 was that we were doing this, if and only if, the narrative that we felt was either implicit or explicit in The Hobbit – meaning you can find events that are omitted or are implicit in The Hobbit that you can flesh out, or you can you can refer to the appendices, or you can refer to ulterior sources and find out what\u2019s happening in them. But we said if the narrative does not demand two, much less three films, then you know it\u2019s not a real chance.<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> So be it.<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> So be it. No it\u2019s two films.<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> And speaking of the narrative demanding things, much was made in the original adaptation of The Lord of the Rings films, certain exclusions that were done in the name of narrative and dramatic…<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> … Tom Bombadil … [laughs]<\/p>\n

Anthony:<\/strong> [continued] Tom Bombadil, The Scouring of The Shire \u2013 were probably the two that everybody sort of most on the top of people\u2019s minds. I\u2019m guessing you\u2019re not able or prepared, and you probably don\u2019t even know yet, but if there are any sort of \u2018cuts\u2019, for lack of a better word, that are probably going to left on the floor \u2013 in terms of the narrative?<\/p>\n

Guillermo:<\/strong> I think that for the bulk of the work we do which is: \u2018adapting\u2019 and obviously \u2018adapting\u2019 means that you\u2019re going to repurpose and refurnish essentially something existing; you know you\u2019re going to have to move the furniture. You\u2019re going to have to say that this goes, this doesn\u2019t go. It is inevitable that you need to. But, if you come to it from either your own knowledge of the source, or your own instinct of the source and in this case, between the four of us, I think we have it \u2013 you know, both, I think that it will feel organic. It will feel organic and it will feel respectful and it will feel coherent. And I think that whatever omissions there are as a fan of the \u2018book\u2019 because \u2013 and I underline \u2018The Book\u2019 because that\u2019s where I\u2019m coming from \u2013 I was not coming to this project as a scholar of Tolkien, or I didn\u2019t know all of his works. I come as a guy who read The Hobbit at eleven, and didn\u2019t read anything else he wrote except interviews and theory, because I really always loved his theory of fantasy and how to write. I was always a big fan of that. But I didn\u2019t read the Trilogy until last year \u2013 you know. Because as a kid, I never got into it, and I\u2019m saying, whatever is left out I feel will be minor because I\u2019m so voracious about The Hobbit. You know, as a fat man, voracity is a salient defect or an inevitable virtue \u2013 one or the other [Anthony laughs \u2013 Guillermo coughs] and I\u2019m so hungry to put, to cram as much as I can of what it is The Hobbit, as I can.<\/p>\n

STAY TUNED FOR PART II NEXT WEEK!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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