Tribute.ca presents The Hobbit
The Hobbit - Presented by Tribute > News > Parts of Guillermo del Toro’s vision for The Hobbit incorporated into trilogy

Parts of Guillermo del Toro’s vision for The Hobbit incorporated into trilogy


Director Peter Jackson says that he had to start design work from scratch when he chose to direct The Hobbit, but reworked designs he liked that were done by Guillermo del Toro before he left the project. Del Toro signed on in 2008 to direct the adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit into two films, but would leave the project in 2010 after lengthy delays in setting a start date for filming.

“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,” he wrote on the Lord of the Rings site TheOneRing.net.

Peter Jackson has since taken the reins, and what was intended to be two films has turned into a trilogy that will conclude in 2014 with The Hobbit: There and Back Again. Although Jackson had to start over when he agreed to direct the trilogy, he reworked some of del Toro’s ideas into the production.

“The film that he designed was a very del Toro looking type of film, which was cool, and that would have been a different movie to this and it would have been really interesting,” he told HITFIX. “But I can’t make somebody else’s film, obviously. So when I came on, it was like, ‘Okay, well, let me have a look at everything and I’ll kind of start again.’ But still, all of the stuff he did that I liked and the good ideas, I certainly kept quite a few of them…But I’ve also pulled back on a lot of it to steer it more to the look that we did on the original Lord of the Rings films.”

Despite leaving the project, del Toro is till credited as a writer on the trilogy, which he worked on with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. ~Raj-Kabir Birk

Comments: