{"id":73506,"date":"2013-06-13T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=73506"},"modified":"2013-06-13T10:03:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:03:21","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-not-credited-as-a-screenwriter-in-dos-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/06\/13\/73506-guillermo-del-toro-not-credited-as-a-screenwriter-in-dos-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro not credited as a screenwriter in DoS trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

If, like us, you\u00a0have been repeatedly watching the new The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/em>\u00a0trailer over the last couple of days, you may have noticed something surprising at the end.\u00a0 In the second screen of credits, right after Tolkien’s name, the screenwriters are credited: ‘Screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson’.\u00a0 That’s it; unlike in\u00a0the credits for An Unexpected Journey<\/em>, Guillermo del Toro is not credited as a screenwriter for this second movie.\u00a0 (Not in this trailer, at any rate…)<\/p>\n

\"thdos-trailer01-092\"<\/a>What this means is anyone’s guess.\u00a0 We know of course that del Toro\u00a0worked long and hard on the screenplays for the movies when he was in position as the films’ director.\u00a0 At that time the plan was for only two movies; it seems hard to imagine, however, that it would be possible to extricate del Toro’s contributions to the scripts to such an extent that it could safely be said that he had NO hand in the screenplay for Desolation of Smaug<\/em>.\u00a0 Further, del Toro\u00a0suggested that he would continue to be a part of the screenwriting even after<\/em> he had left the movies as director; he wrote on TORn’s messageboards, ‘The writing team of PJ,FW,PB and myself will keep moving the screenplays forward.’ (See his post here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is simply that the film makers were only contractually obliged to acknowledge del Toro’s\u00a0contributions in the credits for one movie; movie studios are sticklers for what’s in the contract!\u00a0 Perhaps del Toro himself asked only to be credited in the first movie\u00a0– wishing the role he played to be acknowledged but also perhaps\u00a0wanting to move forward from the project, having made that very difficult decision to leave Middle-earth behind.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps, as for An Unexpected Journey<\/em>, he will be credited at the end of the movie as ‘Project Consultant’.\u00a0 Perhaps he will again be credited as a writer on the third movie, There and Back Again<\/em>.\u00a0 We’ll have to wait and see; meanwhile, it’s just one of those things which make you go, ‘Hmmm….’<\/p>\n

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