Guillermo del Toro

And so do I! This is one Marvel property that would make a fantastic film adaptation! Writer Neil Gaimen and director Guillermo del Toro signed up for the DOCTOR STRANGE project in February this year, but then of course, came The Hobbit. So what now for my favourite of the Marvel Superheros? Another few years in development hell perhaps? Speaking to MTV, Gaiman said they were both still interested: "Guillermo del Toro and I have talked about doing a Doctor Strange movie. And I think we'd... Read Full Story

There has been plenty of confusion and maybe even a bit of frustration over just what the hell two Hobbit movies would accomplish. After all, there's one book, and while the common belief has been that some of J.R.R. Tolkien's other Middle Earth writings would serves as the foundation for the second film - kind of a "bridge" between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, what that would look like was still a bit foggy. But Guillermo del Toro, who's directing the films, told MTV that he... Read Full Story

Guillermo del Toro has insisted that his interpretation of Tolkein's classic, THE HOBBIT, and the second "bridge" movie will in fact be one continuous story in the vein of Tolkein's vision of "The Lord of the Rings". Rather than two separate stories, del Toro, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson and Phillippa Boyens have now reached a point where it is just "the story" - told in two parts. “The reality is that we stopped talking the first movie and second movie, and we just started taking about the... Read Full Story

We know that Guillermo del Toro is off to make a couple of Hobbit movies, and then after that, his dance card is punched until 2017 by Universal. He's remaking Slaughterhouse-Five, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and even Frankenstein. I think those might all be time permitting kind of situations. Who confirms he's directing a movie seven years out? I have no doubt they'll get made, but whether del Toro is behind the camera or not, I'm not sure. That's the plan, and he's been a feverish... Read Full Story

The filmmaker formally known as Guillermo del Toro, now referred to ubiquitously as Guillermo “I’m making The Motherf****** ‘Hobbit’” del Toro, appeared tonight at the Director’s Guild of America in midtown Manhattan as part of The New Yorker Festival series of talks. During the conversation withNew Yorker staff writer Daniel Zalewski, the director of such modern genre masterpieces as Pan’s Labyrinth and the “Hellboy” series talked up some of his future projects, including the aforementioned... Read Full Story