The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a personal anticipation, perhaps mainly due to the prior filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy). Now that MGM went a little bankrupt, and Del Toro, who was left with very tad funding, left the project, (he's now working on Pacific Rim), Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) takes the rebound.
Del Toro already had been in halfway of pre-prod when he left the pic, so the most basic parts may be presumably settled. He had done the prior character designs and set design pieces and everything.
The Pan's Labyrinth director is known for his sly creations especially to the genre.
Peter Jackson, who is now on the director's seat, tells i09 that Guillermo's designs won't be used and will have replaced. "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," Jackson said.
"It was his artistic vision and I couldn't make that movie. I looked at his designs and I said 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."
"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. But the film was largely redesigned."
Knowing that Jackson already have proven himself on the genre, specifically with adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's novels into movies (The Hobbit is also one), the thought of him redoing the film, while leaving a few "Del Toro" moments isn't unsettling after all.
With this information, are you still excited as before? I know I am. Jackson knows his craft very well.
SOURCE: CINEMABLEND
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