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Guillermo del Toro HATES The Hobbit
Nobody I knew was as excited as me about the confirmation of Guillermo del Toro to direct The Hobbit and what ever the frak they're going to call the sequel. Hobbit 2: Bilbo's Revenge or Hobbit 2: Damn Dirty Dwarves or Hobbit 2: Electric Boogaloo or Hobbit 2: Everything From Here on Out is Gonna be Cake or maybe just Hobbits. Regardless, this time it's personal. Or so I thought.
Here I pictured Guillermo, with his perfectly executed mythology film Pan's Labyrinth, would be the go-to guy for sure to take up these creative reins. I may have been overconfident. Apparently, not only has Guillermo del Toro not ever even finished reading the original trilogy, but he wasn't a fan of it to begin with.
Salon.com brought us the scoop from the past. He told them in an interview at Cannes in 2006 that Hobbits ain't his thing:
Oops. What now? My excitement for this project has suddenly considerably lessened. I am absolutely 100% against Guillermo directing this if he's only doing it for the money and prestige. If his heart's not in it, let him go make something he actually WANTS to make like At The Mountains of Madness or Doctor Strange or one of the hundreds of other projects he's flirted with in the past year or so.
To make a project like this even comparable to the original Lord of the Rings trilogy, they've got to be helmed by someone who loves them completely. Someone who's proven his vision already. Somebody like...Peter Jackson.
Seriously, WTF? He can't do it because he's busy with other stuff? What, like producing a Halo movie and frelling Tintin?
Tintin?
Seriously, who gives a flying frak about frelling Tintin besides Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg and probably Harry Knowles...No offense guys, I'm sure Tintin is great and totally fab and all that...but over The Hobbit film? Time for this French character to surrender (something I hear they're good at) to something a little more anticipated.
SOURCE: Salon.com
Here I pictured Guillermo, with his perfectly executed mythology film Pan's Labyrinth, would be the go-to guy for sure to take up these creative reins. I may have been overconfident. Apparently, not only has Guillermo del Toro not ever even finished reading the original trilogy, but he wasn't a fan of it to begin with.
Salon.com brought us the scoop from the past. He told them in an interview at Cannes in 2006 that Hobbits ain't his thing:
"I was never into heroic fantasy. At all. I don't like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits -- I've never been into that at all. I don't like sword and sorcery, I hate all that stuff."
Oops. What now? My excitement for this project has suddenly considerably lessened. I am absolutely 100% against Guillermo directing this if he's only doing it for the money and prestige. If his heart's not in it, let him go make something he actually WANTS to make like At The Mountains of Madness or Doctor Strange or one of the hundreds of other projects he's flirted with in the past year or so.
To make a project like this even comparable to the original Lord of the Rings trilogy, they've got to be helmed by someone who loves them completely. Someone who's proven his vision already. Somebody like...Peter Jackson.
Seriously, WTF? He can't do it because he's busy with other stuff? What, like producing a Halo movie and frelling Tintin?
Tintin?
Seriously, who gives a flying frak about frelling Tintin besides Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg and probably Harry Knowles...No offense guys, I'm sure Tintin is great and totally fab and all that...but over The Hobbit film? Time for this French character to surrender (something I hear they're good at) to something a little more anticipated.
SOURCE: Salon.com
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Comment by NightFire on April 27, 2008 at 2:31pm -
Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by Marcel on April 27, 2008 at 2:16am -
Peter Jackson is starving his ass to death!
Well, Guillermo is a great director but I'm with Cyrus on this one. If your heart's not in it, just let someone else do it.
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Comment by Brotherless on April 27, 2008 at 1:46am
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Wait, Tintin? As in the comic book character who messes with the supernatural all the time...really? I didn't think that was popular enough to make a movie out of. But to be fair to Guillermo del Toro, I've read the entire World of Time saga (and am waiting impatiently for that twelfth book adaptation), and I couldn't get all the way through Lord of the Rings (not sure what it is about Return of the King that's so daunting).
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Comment by Beau on April 27, 2008 at 1:36am -
He didn't say he hated "fantasy" he said he hated "heroic fantasy".
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Comment by Iffy on April 27, 2008 at 1:33am -
Holy shit, dude. *Stan from South Park impression*
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Comment by Rolland on April 27, 2008 at 12:49am -
How can he hate the fantasy genre, his signature work IS fantasy. It must be a lie or a misunderstanding. It's like saying David Lynch hates surrealism.
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Comment by Beau on April 27, 2008 at 12:29am
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Hmm. Maybe Guillermo is just under the impression that directing movies about Hobbits makes you lose weight.
Srsly. Why don't we just let Senor Porky McTapas up there hand over the reins to Peter Jackson and maybe in exchange he can take over and do that dark broody version of Tintin every Frenchman would wet his pants over.
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Comment by Lord of Winterfell on April 26, 2008 at 10:44pm
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Fucking Hell...Somebody shoot him
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Comment by Frank on April 26, 2008 at 10:36pm -
I wish Peter Jackson would direct it.
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Comment by THE MILKMAN? on April 26, 2008 at 10:35pm -
Well.... FUCK.
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