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Looks like I will have to rent Pan’s Labyrinth:
Guillermo del Toro has officially signed up to direct The Hobbit, according to reports leaking out from a film premiere in France. The Pan’s Labyrinth creator will oversee a double-bill of films based on JRR Tolkien’s fantasy adventure, which paved the way for The Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson, director of the Oscar-winning Rings trilogy, will serve as executive producer. [read more]
I am not familiar with del Toro. Hopefully he won’t screw up as much as Peter Jackson did. Yes, there were things that Jackson did very well — but it may take years before I can reread the Lord of the Rings without picturing that insufferable wimp, Viggo Mortenson, as Aragorn, or Rivendell as a bad collector’s plate by Thomas Kincade, the “painter of light!” Ugh!
Nonetheless, I look forward to the Hobbit very much. As of now, it’s scheduled to come out in 2010. Now that the director has been signed, pre-production will begin right away.
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lol, what did you expect its a movie not the book. What wrong with Viggo?
Comment by dillon July 15, 2009 @ 4:03 pmViggo’s a metrosexual beta male. Aragorn is not a metrosexual beta male. He was waaaaay too thenthative and weepy.
Comment by American Elephant July 15, 2009 @ 8:12 pm