The recent speculation...
concerning hobbits and movies has officially been confirmed:
"Guillermo del Toro has been named as the director of the film version of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and its proposed sequel."
This displeases me. Now I like The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I like Peter Jackson and associates. I like Guillermo del Toro too.
What I don't like is all kinds of fucked up eyes growing out of Bilbo's feet, and wings on Gandalf's head, and all other kinds of weird shit that del Toro is known for including. Don't get me wrong -- that stuff works great in the kinds of dark fantasy/urban fantasy movies he is known for. Hell, I enjoy it in those movies. However, Tolkien's work is a classic heroic fantasy/high fantasy epic. Smaug is a dragon that sleeps under a mountain on a big pile of gold. He isn't a freaky cockatrice that stirs restlessly on the other side of some interdimensional "dream-gate" that can only be opened with the blood of the fallen and a child's innocence, or some shit like that.
In other words, I'm worried The Hobbit movies will be done in a decidedly different style and have a distinctly different feel than The Lord of the Rings.
Nothing can be done at this point though; although I do hope for a few things. I hope that del Toro respects the style and feel that Tolkien wrote in. I hope that Jackson and company assert their production authority when appropriate. Most of all though, I hope Gollum isn't artistically reinterpreted as some sort of insectoid netherdemon born of nightmares and elf tears.
"Guillermo del Toro has been named as the director of the film version of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and its proposed sequel."
This displeases me. Now I like The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I like Peter Jackson and associates. I like Guillermo del Toro too.
What I don't like is all kinds of fucked up eyes growing out of Bilbo's feet, and wings on Gandalf's head, and all other kinds of weird shit that del Toro is known for including. Don't get me wrong -- that stuff works great in the kinds of dark fantasy/urban fantasy movies he is known for. Hell, I enjoy it in those movies. However, Tolkien's work is a classic heroic fantasy/high fantasy epic. Smaug is a dragon that sleeps under a mountain on a big pile of gold. He isn't a freaky cockatrice that stirs restlessly on the other side of some interdimensional "dream-gate" that can only be opened with the blood of the fallen and a child's innocence, or some shit like that.
In other words, I'm worried The Hobbit movies will be done in a decidedly different style and have a distinctly different feel than The Lord of the Rings.
Nothing can be done at this point though; although I do hope for a few things. I hope that del Toro respects the style and feel that Tolkien wrote in. I hope that Jackson and company assert their production authority when appropriate. Most of all though, I hope Gollum isn't artistically reinterpreted as some sort of insectoid netherdemon born of nightmares and elf tears.