In an interview with MTV.com, “The Hobbit” director Guillermo Del Toro stated that instead of two separate Hobbit films, the project will hopefully be one continuous film cut in two parts.
“The reality is that we stopped talking the first movie and second movie, and we just started talking about the movie-the two episodes, or two parts, as if they were a single piece of narrative,” Guillermo said about the script meetings between him, Peter Jackson and his team made up of Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens.
Apparently some in the Tolkien cult are concerned about where the ending of the first episode will take place in relation to the text, which we honestly know nothing about, since our attempt at reading the Tolkien books was a very “books are hard” experience.
Guillermo also expressed that his ultimate goal is to keep to the continuity that the first three films did so well, “We all agree that if we do our job right, it should all feel like a continuous journey. That’s what we’re striving for. If we do our job right, you put in ‘The Hobbit’ and you wind of up watching the entire Pentology.”
‘Rings’ fans needn’t go bedpan shopping just yet though, since “The Hobbit” isn’t scheduled to be released until 2011 at the earliest. And more bad news for those obsessives, since now it appears that the director of the ‘Rings’ Trilogy, Peter Jackson, will have nothing to do with the directing of “The Hobbit” film, because when Guillermo was asked about this possibility his response was pretty clear that he will be directing this one solo, “We talked about it. I normally oppose fully the idea of a second unit so my first instinct is no, we will not have a second unit on this film.”
“The Hobbit” is a children’s book, we’re not talking about “The Silmarillion” here, and by the way the best book ever! You should turn off your computer and run to the nearest bookstore, buy it, and read it.
I read and liked it, but I was 17. Tolkien is a dry-ass writer. Unless you’re a huuuge fan, I’d say enjoy the movies and read something else. It’s no wonder LOTR the movies were so good, because while the imagination in the books is stellar the writing is mostly snoozeworthy.
Yeah, right? After watching LOTR then trying to read the insanely drawn out books was impossible.