05-30-2010, 10:38 PM
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Getting it.
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Crap.
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Wanted: New director for guaranteed hit fantasy film.
After two years of development, director and co-writer Guillermo Del Toro has quit The Hobbit. The reasoning basically comes down to the indefinite delays forced on the film by the financial uncertainty surrounding MGM - who hold part of the rights - and Del Toro's unwillingness to continue delaying his many, many other in-development projects while waiting for a start date that may never come for the Lord of the Rings prequel.
Del Toro broke the news in a statement posted on fansite The One Ring in which he states:
In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming "The Hobbit," I am faced with the hardest decision of my life. After nearly two years of living, breathing and designing a world as rich as Tolkien's Middle Earth, I must, with great regret, take leave from helming these wonderful pictures. I remain grateful to Peter, Fran and Philippa Boyens, New Line and Warner Brothers and to all my crew in New Zealand. I've been privileged to work in one of the greatest countries on earth with some of the best people ever in our craft and my life will be forever changed. The blessings have been plenty, but the mounting pressures of conflicting schedules have overwhelmed the time slot originally allocated for the project. Both as a co-writer and as a director, I wish the production nothing but the very best of luck and I will be first in line to see the finished product. I remain an ally to it and its makers, present and future, and fully support a smooth transition to a new director.
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Peter Jackson is still producing but I am not sure who else out there has the right sensibility to direct this beast.
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