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Del Toro talks ‘Hobbit’ in Live Chat
by Alex ~ November 27th, 2008. Filed under: Casting, Crew, Del Toro, The Hobbit. Tweet
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 with you on Hellboy II that will be joining you on the Hobbit?
A:Hopefully Mignola, Barlowe, Spectral Motion, Guillermo Navarro and others…Q:Will you be using Danny Elfman as a composer again on future projects?
A:Absolutely, but not until after the HOBBIT films.Q:Do you think filming Hellboy II helped prepare you for filming the Hobbit?
A:Technically, yes- but that’s not the challenge in THE HOBBIT. The challenge is to create and expand a massive universe and be as immersive as the Trilogy was. To approach Tolkien’s book with the right mixture of reverence, enthusiasm and invention.Q:WILL THERE BE ANY COOL CREATURES IN HOBBIT LIKE HELLBOY2?
A:many many more and we will be pushing the goblin kindgom. we will be pushing smaug, the spiders of mirkwood. we will be pushing them to the edge of technology where we will fuse animatronics and cgi into a seamless new art form in creating creatures, i think.Q:Do you plan to use any particular effects or techniques in the Hobbit that were used in Hellboy II?
A:Well, yes, but used in a different way. You will see some mind-boggling mixture of CGI / Puppetry like never before. The demarcation of where one technique ends and the other begins will NOT be as clean as in HBII or BLADE II or PAN’S LABYRINTH. I am going to push further than ever on both fronts.Q:WHEN DOES FILMING FOR THE HOBBIT BEGIN?
A:it will begin in 2010 and we will shoot for about 370 days or so…Q:At what age did you first read The Hobbit?
A:I believe it was between 10 years old and 11 years old. My first copy of it is dated as printed in 1973 and I know I bought it shortly after being published by a great publishing house called MINOTAURO which was (in my childhood years) like the CRITERION COLLECTION of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.Q:How long did it take to create the script for this movie?
A:For the record- neither Peter Jackson nor I had the faintest contact about the HOBBIT movies prior to the absolute completion of HELLBOY II. I got Peter’s first call in December 2007- way after we wrapped the film. So, the visuals in the HOBBIT movie are not anticipated in the HBII movie.Q:Will you be working with Guillermo Navarro on The Hobbit?
A:I hope so!!Q:Does Mike Mignola have any involvement with you on The Hobbit?
A:I hope and pray he joins us at the design stage for a week or two.Q:Who are your top choices to play Bilbo Baggins in the upcoming Hobbit Movies?
A:Hopefully, very soon we can reveal that-
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February 15th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
-Hola,que tal.
SerÃa grandioso que el director Guillermo del Toro viera esta pagina web y si la vé y sabe el idioma español por ser mexicano,quisiera decirle que soy de LIMA-PERÚ y que me encantarÃa ser extra en la pelicula the hobbit ya que es una de mis faboritas como the lord of the rings y tambien seria ya mi mayor sueño hecho realidad trabajar para este director grandioso como lo es tambien Peter Jackson y los dos juntos trabajando son dinamita pura y trabajar con un elenco maravilloso de the lord of the rings son asombrosos y me encantarÃa estar como extra pero como una hobbit.Yo quise ser extra en the lord of the rings pero no pude porque estaba en colegio pero ahora estoy libre osea ya termine el colegio y si necesitan extras que el director Guillermo del Toro piense en mi, gracias y sé que ya tiene los oscares asegurados, se actuar en publico y como teatro,no me da miedo las camaras.
Mi hotmail es mgeorgia2008@hotmail.com
-gracias-si me eligen estare infinitamente agradecida.CHAU.
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