May 312010
I’m going to have to wait a while longer to see the screen adaptation of The Hobbit. The project has experienced several delays and now director Guillermo Del Toro has announced he’s departing because of scheduling conflicts. I was really looking forward to seeing how Del Toro would filter Middle-Earth through his own steampunky, slightly off-kilter aesthetic, so this news is pretty disappointing. I’m sure the movie will get made under the guidance of another director (maybe even Peter Jackson himself), but it probably won’t hit theaters until I’m on the other side of 40. But if this means Del Toro might helm another Hellboy movie, I’d consider that an acceptable trade-off.
