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29Nov2008

Year-Long Shoot for 'The Hobbit' to Begin in 2010

DateSaturday, November 29, 2008 at 2:08PM
Among the revelations in a new chat transcript with the always chatty Guillermo del Toro is a timetable for his next film, he anxiously-awaited Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit. The full transcript is available at BilboHobbit, but there are a few notes of interest we'll give you here.

For example, del Toro says that The Hobbit wasn't on his radar until about a year ago. "Neither Peter Jackson nor I had the faintest contact about the Hobbit movies prior to the absolute completion of Hellboy II," said the director. "I got Peter’s first call in December 2007- way after we wrapped the film. So, the visuals in the Hobbit movie are not anticipated in the HBII movie."

Visuals are, of course, part of the deal with a del Toro film, which we should expect to be an amazing component of The Hobbit. "We will be pushing the goblin kingdom," del Toro announced. "We will be pushing smaug, the spiders of mirkwood. We will be pushing them to the edge of technology where we will fuse animatronics and CGI into a seamless new art form in creating creatures."

Wow. Sounds cool. So with a December 2011 release date, when will del Toro and Jackson get crankin'? "It will begin in 2010 and we will shoot for about 370 days or so."

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uhuh.

Saturday, November 29, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterd0od

I believe that there will be creative differences between Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro.

Monday, December 1, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterLengthy Johnson

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