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Peter Jackson credits Guillermo del Toro’s Hobbit influence


This may come as a surprise to those who connect the upcoming film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and subsequently to director Peter Jackson who did both projects, but Jackson was not the first director signed on to the film. Guillermo del Toro, responsible for films like Hellboy and Pan’s […]

This may come as a surprise to those who connect the upcoming film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and subsequently to director Peter Jackson who did both projects, but Jackson was not the first director signed on to the film. Guillermo del Toro, responsible for films like Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, was in fact set to direct the trilogy, and worked on the film for 18 months before Jackson stepped in. “[Guillermo] had designed a lot of the movie,” Jackson recounted in a recent interview with io9.com. “I looked at his designs when he took over and a lot of his designs are very Guillermo . . . it was very much stuff that you would recognize from Pan’s Labyrinth or Hellboy. It was his artistic vision and I couldn’t make that movie.” Opting to change a lot of del Toro’s work, Jackson stated, “The only person who can make a Guillermo del Toro movie is Guillermo. It shouldn’t be me. I can’t put my head into somebody else’s idea — I have to generate it from the beginning.” Not meaning to diminish his work, Jackson made sure to credit del Toro, adding, “Some of Guillermo’s DNA is in there — there were some things he did that I thought were pretty cool and I’ve taken bits of pieces of his stuff — kind of altering it and changing it as I saw it,” before reaffirming that the film was “largely redesigned.” ~Morgan Bates

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