SDCC: Guillermo Del Toro Hoping for PJ!!
This article was posted by TheGD on 23 Jul 2010, 06:46 pm
During a Comic-Con panel for the horror film
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Guillermo del Toro (who wrote and produced the film) shared his hopes for the long-anticipated big-screen adaptation of The Hobbit, which he recently dropped out of directing.
"As a fan, I hope those movies get made," del Toro told the crowd. "And I hope to God Peter Jackson directs them. They're beautiful and they're needed in the world." The filmmaker said that, in his two years of work prepping for the Hobbit films, "we completely designed 98 percent of the first movie" as well as about half of the second one.
The status of the project is currently up in the air, but various reports have suggested that Jackson is strongly considering directing it. For his part, del Toro said he is going to announce a horror film he will direct "very soon" and also expressed his hopes to "do my version of Frankenstein as soon as possible." He also said that in the next few months he will announce a horror anthology series he plans to produce for cable TV.
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24 Jul 2010, 08:53 pm
I still think that GDT will somehow be involved in The Hobbit...not directing...but he had so much to do with getting it started...can't imagine him not playing some role in the finale!
24 Jul 2010, 05:49 pm
You gotta like GDT, he's a great guy.
24 Jul 2010, 03:30 pm
GDT is doing tons of cool projects now, I hope he is happy, and I hope PJ gets The Hobbit.
24 Jul 2010, 03:54 am
Would have been interesting to see what he would have done with The Hobbit. But I think we will see a lot of his work in the final film, when it does get maid that is.
24 Jul 2010, 01:51 am
GdT is a great guy. I'm sad he had to pull out of the Hobbit...
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