The Hobbit
By The BBC are reporting that Guillermo del Toro; director of Pan's Labyrinth and both Hellboy movies, has been named as the director of the The Hobbit and its proposed sequel.
The films, planned for release in 2010 and 2011, will be prequels to the Lord of the Rings trilogy directed by New Zealand's Peter Jackson. Jackson will produce the films, to be made back-to-back in New Zealand.
According to studio New Line, the first will be an adaptation of The Hobbit, the novel Tolkien published before his Lord of the Rings cycle and the second will be an original story focusing on the 60 years between the book and the beginning of the Rings trilogy.
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I'd heard about the Hellboy director for the Hobbit, but that was just a rumour at the time. Didn't know about the prequel sequel though. Interesting. Do you think they'll stick Tom Bombadil in it? Ian Holm as Bilbo? Leonard Nimoy singing the title sequence? LOL