A Bad Hobbit to Break

Guillermo Del Toro will be directing The Hobbit and a follow up - which is being explained as a 'bridge film' - or filler, or more cash please?

"I had the most charming meeting with Sir Ian, and all bureaucracy pending, he’s on board, as is Andy Serkis," he said. "We will continue giving you progress reports as the occur. It is our intention that we will not lose any of the key elements." Del Toro has a lot more to say - for instance, he would take issue with me calling The Hobbit sequel a bridge film: "When we did this we got really excited because this second film is not a ‘tag on’, it’s not ‘filler’, it’s an integral part of telling the story of those 50 years of history lost in the narrative. There will be certain things that we will see from the first movie but from a different point of view, but it will feel like a volume, in the 5 volumes of the entire story. It will not feel like a bridge, I’ve been hearing it called ‘a bridge film’, it’s not, it’s an integral chapter of the story, and I think we’re all on the same page."

He also talks about what might be the main difference between his film and Peter Jackson's original - he wants to use more animatronics that will be aided by CGI as opposed to creating a bunch of CGI creatures.

Check out the entire interview here, if you dare... er, care.