Recent Posts Tagged With 'the_hobbit'

• The Hobbit Movie News

  Posted on Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 15:57 in guillermo_del_toro, peter_jackson, the_hobbit, james_mcavoy

  Rumor has it that James McAvoy could be cast as Bilbo Baggins in the upcoming Hobbit movies. That's cool with me--McAvoy is a good actor, and can carry off that long-haired look that is prerequisite for all these Tolkien films. He did a superb job as...

• Director of The Hobbit Movie "Not Into Hobbits"

  Posted on Monday April 28th, 2008 at 21:23 in guillermo_del_toro, peter_jackson, the_hobbit

  This just in: The new director of The Hobbit film, Guillermo del Toro is not a big fan of heroic fantasy in general and J.R.R. Tolkien's books in particular. FilmChat quotes a piece by Andrew O'Hehir:First of all, hasn't anybody noticed that del Tor...

• The Hobbit Movie has a Director

  Posted on Friday April 25th, 2008 at 18:39 in the_hobbit

  And he is Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth), a proven genius with a tendency toward darker films. Peter Jackson, of course, is producing. WETA workshop in tow.J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit is the most light-hearted of his Middle Earth fiction. ...