The Hobbit’s Director Revealed
Geeks rejoice! The Hobbit movies are slowly being fleshed into existence with the official announcement of the inclusion of Guillermo Del Toro a writer/director. He is well known for the Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy.
We mentioned las time that McKellen is raring to get another crack at this franchise as the wizard Gandalf. The Hobbit will have two movies. The first one deals with the story in the book, while the second movie will show what happened between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring.
“All I can say is that I am diligently going through all Tolkien material related to Middle-earth but only as a way of bridging a gap in my reading. I still respond the strongest to “The Hobbit,” but as an avid reader of Mythology I find a lot of his other writings fascinating. A perfect Cosmology forged from very eclectic sources”