The Two Hobbits
The constellations are lining up for a couple of great hobbit movies.
In December, New Line and Peter Jackson settled their differences, and we learned that there would be not one, but two films made from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit, or There and Back Again with Jackson as producer. Yesterday we found out that Guillermo del Toro will be directing both films, to be released in 2010 and 2011.
Hold on, you say! Hellboy II: The Golden Army will be released in July. Shouldn’t del Toro be working on Hellboy III sometime in the next few years?
As recently as December, he is quoted as saying:
“The way Mike [Mignola] and I did approach this was, when we were told, ‘Think about something, if you want, for a sequel,’ we went away and said, ‘Let’s talk about it. Do we want to continue the story?’ We did the first one saying, ‘That’s it. It’s a self-concluding story.’ And I said, ‘Let’s come up with an arc that makes sense for us for the second and third movie.’”
However, earlier this month, i09 reported a rumor that del Toro was “definitely not doing Hellboy III“, leading some to speculate that he would be brought in for The Hobbit.
Sorry, Hellboy fans. It looks like Anung Un Rama’s loss will be Bilbo’s gain.
