Del Toro To Take 'The Hobbit' To New Lands

Over at ReelzChannel.com they scored descriptive hints from Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro.

"Well we start next year. We are in pre-production. We are writing, designing, designing characters, monsters. Designing all the environments. Developing the technology to shoot it. And it will start in March 2010 and we will shoot for about 370 days or so. And at the end of that we will post-produce for a few months. And then first movie comes out 2011. Second movie comes out 2012."

"The landscapes in some cases, in some instances that were not established in the trilogy, we are going for a slightly different feel in some of the landscapes. So we are going to evolve little by little. At the end of the first movie, you will see landscapes that you haven't seen in the trilogy. And in the second movie we go to, hopefully, a place that is very very different."

"... it looks like a 16-hour, insane movie, there's so much in it. It's too early for me to tell how much stuff is going to get paired down. I don't really feel comfortable saying too much, except that it looks amazing. And it's very much a del Toro stamp on that world."

To read the entire article head over to ReelzChannel.com

Tangible 'Hobbit' News!

Found some exciting news over at G4 today:

Firstly, del Toro had what could be considered somewhat of a casting scoop. (Even though we've pretty much carried on the past years "knowing" it was going to happen.) Andy Serkis will return as Gollum, Ian McKellen will return as Gandalf, and Hugo Weaving will return as Elrond, all reprising their Lord of the Rings trilogy roles. Again, most any given fan would likely have never even thought that they would NOT return. However, it's still a warm and fuzzy feeling to at least get that little bit of news, straight from the horse's mouth."

Del Toro on The Hobbit

This is a great update on The Hobbit right from Guillermo del Toro.

Due out late 2011 and 2012!

The Hobbit Is On!

Instead of rewriting this article about The Hobbit from E! Online, I am going to restate some key points.

Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are going to be involved in the making of the Hobbit

PJ will probably not be directing with his busy schedule

The Hobbit will be delivered in two installments beginning 2010

Both will be filmed at the same time like LotR

Nothing has been said so far, including casting

The first film will cover material in The Hobbit while the second will go through the 80 years between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring

Articles covering much of the same information, and some new

WorstPreviews.com

BusinessWeek.com

Time.com

ABC News