Del Toro confirmed, in an interview with BBC Radio 5, that Hugo Weaving will reprise the role of Elrond in the upcoming Hobbit films. Also he confirms that Andy Serkis will reprise Gollum and Ian McKellen will reprise Gandalf. Thanks EW!

Finally, speculations and debate about what would be the plot for the second Hobbit movie can stop, Petter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro talked to Empire magazine and revealed all. “We’ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur,” says [...]

The movie website Cinematical has created a list of the 25 most breaking news of the late year 2008. The Guillermo del Toro hiring for the flick was included in the list, with the following review: What do you do when your geek base demands a prequel to one of their biggest fantasy trilogies, and [...]

Back from a recent trip to New Zealand, Guillermo Del Toro spoke briefly about some details with the upcoming Hobbit films: He (Del Toro) came from a travel of 17 hours from New Zealand, where he was working on the pre-production of The Hobbit, that he will shot in 2010. “It’s a long pre-production, I’ve [...]

In a live chat, Guillermo Del Toro talked about the upcoming Hobbit movie: Q:Universal announced a pretty busy slate for you after “The Hobbit.” Will we see a Hellboy 3? A:If its up to me- yes!! But it is a corporate decision and regimes change very rapidly at these studios. Q:There any professionals who worked [...]

In a new interview with Crave Online, Guillermo Del Toro talked briefly about the upcoming Hobbit movie: Crave Online: I know it’s too early to talk casting, but doesn’t James McAvoy sound like a good idea right about now? Guillermo del Toro: Really, if I was to answer either way, it would be unfair because [...]

Who is Bilbo? What is his character like? Guillermo Del Toro has some interesting thoughts on his ideas about Bilbo: Bilbo is a good-hearted man, and the honesty of Bilbo is in direct contrast to the greed of Smaug, which looms large in the entire narrative, but also in the newly acquired greed and pride [...]

Guillermo Del Toro speaks about Smaug, approaching actors, and other details about the Hobbit in an interview with MTV. MTV: Do you have the picture yet of the Smaug you want to create? Del Toro: I discussed the Smaug appearance with great detail with [Tolkien illustrators] John Howe and Alan Lee, and there’s some illustrations that [...]

In an interview with MTV News, Guillermo Del Toro refused to fractionalize Tolkiens book into component parts. “We don’t even call it the bridge movie, we just call it ‘The Movie.’ And this is great. When we found what reverberated, and we found it in one of our virtual meetings – we understood. It’s a [...]

Guillermo del Toro recently appeared at the Director’s Guild of America in midtown Manhattan as part of The New Yorker Festival series of talks. During the conversation with New Yorker staff writer Daniel Zalewski, del Toro discussed where exactly his mind was in Middle Earth. “I find you have to discipline yourself to write in [...]