PETER JACKSON, who is the producer on Guillermo del Toro's two-part adaptation of The Hobbit, has addressed widely-circulating claims that the film's release has been postponed.
The Hobbit's first instalment is due to come out on December 2011, followed by the second in December 2012.
But reports said the first part wouldn't be ready until 2012 because Jackson and Del Toro were behind schedule with the scripts, meaning that filming couldn't begin on time.
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Peter Jackson announced to Movie Reporter.net that Guillermo Del Toro’s The Hobbit will commence shooting in the summer of 2010. He revealed, too, the script has gone through its second draft with a finish date for next month, or January. This is a minor setback as production was to begin in March. Interestingly, the budget has yet to be sorted, so does this mean The Hobbit is stuck in development hell? Not likely. If there was a dead cert for a blockbuster, then, The Hobbit is it.
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In a new interview with the BBC , Peter Jackson expresses no concern about handing over the reins of The
Hobbit to Guillermo del Toro , and talks about his own next step as a director, the 3-D animated Tintin . " Tintin is
great. It's made," Jackson says of his co-production with fellow celluloid hero Steven Spielberg . "The movie is cut together and now
[we] are turning it into a fully-rendered film".
The process of taking the edited footage and transforming it into the Tintin we'll... Read Full Story
Peter Jackson is in London today for the Royal gala world premiere of The Lovely Bones . Interviewed by the BBC , the Kiwi director gave an update on his latest projects, which quite frankly, are massive.
The rise of Peter Jackson is a success story unlike any other (okay maybe Sam Raimi, too). From cheapo, homemade horror to Oscar glory is something early fans of Jackson could never have expected. Now, he’s so rich and powerful, he can do whatever the hell he wants.
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So many names have bee attached to the Hobbit usually pertaining to the lead role and who will portray young Bilbo Baggins. We have also heard that Viggo Mortensen was interested in playing Aragorn. Now we have heard that character actor Brian Cox is eyeing a role in the next film.
Ain’t It Cool News ,is reporting that Cox is rumored to be a major contender to play a dwarf in Guillermo del Toro’s big screen version of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit . The story says that the producers are... Read Full Story
Guillermo del Toro is bringing his creepy film fare to Disney. Walt Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook says the Oscar-winning filmmaker is joining forces with the studio to create a new brand, "Disney Double Dare You," which will produce scary animated fare. Del Toro will be "the creative force" behind the new label, Cook told fans Friday at the D23 Expo, Disney's answer to Comic-Con. The new brand's first production will be "Trollhunters," an original del Toro story. Del Toro spoke to D23... Read Full Story
DIRECTOR Guillermo del Toro has explained how he intends to bring an original look to the creatures and battles of his two-part adaptation of The Hobbit.
The first part of the $300million project comes out in December 2011 and the second a year after that. Peter Jackson is serving as executive producer to help ensure a close match with the Lord of the Rings films.
In a new interview, Del Toro talks in detail about the epic production, which has so far had a year of design work and... Read Full Story
Sir Ian McKellen recently spoke to MTV while promoting his re-imagining of the 1967 mini-series The Prisoner . It did not take long before the conversation jumped to the obvious priority of all news seekers: Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson 's two-movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien 's The Hobbit . Topics discussed mainly hovered around his urge to return to the epic fantasy role that netted him an Academy Award nomination, the surprise arrival part of the script and the security... Read Full Story
Sir Ian McKellen recently spoke to MTV while promoting his re-imagining of the 1967 mini-series The Prisoner . It did not take long before the conversation jumped to the obvious priority of all news seekers: Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson 's two-movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien 's The Hobbit . Topics discussed mainly hovered around his urge to return to the epic fantasy role that netted him an Academy Award nomination, the surprise arrival part of the script and the security lengths... Read Full Story
In Wired magazine, Guillermo del Toro talked about the
future of movies and other media:
“In the next 10 years, we’re going to see all the forms of
entertainment—films, television, video, games, and print—melding into a single
platform ‘story engine.’ The Model T of this new platform is the PS3. The
moment you connect creative output with a public story engine, a narrative can
continue over a period of months or years. It’s going to rewrite the rules of
fiction.”
He indicated that... Read Full Story
