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Guillermo del Toro Directing “The Hobbit”

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Now that Peter Jackson has kissed and made up with the studios, New Line and MGM are in talks with Guillermo del Toro to direct two, simultaneously shot installments of “The Hobbit”!

Jackson was originally interested in adapting “The Hobbit”, but a very loud, very public squabble over profits between Jackson and New Line Studios for “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy put the kibosh on that project. The two parties reconciled their differences last December and Jackson, busy with “The Lovely Bones” and “Tintin”, joined “The Hobbit” as executive producer with creative control.

DIRECTOR GUILLERMO DEL TORO
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And now del Toro is in talks to direct the back-to-back Hobbit movies, each budgeted at $150 million (substantially higher than any of “The Lord of the Rings” movies). Filming will begin in 2009, with release dates currently set for 2010 and 2011. Currently, del Toro is putting the final touches on “Hellboy II: The Golden Army”.

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Posted in Movie/Celebrity News on February 5th, 2008

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  1. Brianne Says:
    February 5th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    how are they going to break up the story into two installments I wonder? Any news on that?

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