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An update: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...fae087024a2b8e

Can't really argue against Guillermo del Toro

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Del Toro is overrated . He ruined Blade 2 and Hellboy was boring

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Blade 2 was going to be crap any which way. I didn't mind Hellboy, though I'm a little leery of the sequel.

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I liked Blade 2, mainly because of the delicious Leonor Varela. Hellboy was fun. Hellboy 2 will probably be fun. And El laberinto del fauno was far and away the best movie of 2006. So I don't think Del Toro is overrated based on that movie alone.

Imagining a sequel to The Hobbit is a stupid, stupid idea.

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The Devil's Backbone is another solid Del Toro flick.

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I really like his style. I think he'll add that necessary dimension to the story that will make it more realistic and enjoyable to watch without it being cheesy. I like the choice of director on this!

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mrjones

I think Del Toro would be a great choice. The temptation with the Hobbit is probably to make the movie overly childish, which would not work out well considering the other LOTR films. I think Del Toro showed with Pan's Labyrinth that he knows how to mix the childlike with the grown-up.

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I want to see how he envisions Smaug. How cool will those scenes be?

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I highly doubt Jackson & Co will simply dream something up. Tolkien has written a wealth of material about the Middle Earth, including stuff about the time between Bilbo returning home and Frodo's departure. A lot of it focuses on Gandalf & the other wizards but I think there is plenty of material to work off of and still maintain a (somewhat) faithful adaptation of the source material.

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Del Toro is also rumored to be making a HP Lovecraft movie. I know that's gotta interest KAS

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I thought of that, too, but the press release said it would be completely made up by Jackson, et al. I think that's dumb.

I also don't know if Tolkien ever explicitly addressed the events between "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings." There's the 12-volume History of Middle Earth (edited by his son Christopher) and some other stuff but, to my knowledge, there isn't anything re: Bilbo, etc. simply because it's taken care of in the first scenes of FOTR: Bilbo lived an extraordinarily long (for a hobbit) and quiet life post-"The Hobbit". The implication is that everything was quiet between the two books (I'm sure stuff was happening but it's clearly not important to the narrative of either story).

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nah there was plenty of important stuff happening in the narrative from almost every angle. simply because bilbo is living phat in bag-end doesn't mean there isn't tons of wheels in motion in other (much more important) parts of the narrative. ****, even in bag-end there stuff happening. As Frodo is coming of age his parents die, for example.

# 2951 - Estel, later known as Aragorn, comes of age and is told about his heritage; the Corsairs of Umbar officially ally themselves with Mordor and destroy great monument commemorating Ar-Pharazôn's victory over Sauron
# 2953 - Last meeting of the White Council. Fengel, fifteenth king of Rohan, dies. His son Thengel returns to Rohan to succeed him.
# 2956 - Aragorn first meets Gandalf the Grey
# 2957-2980 - Aragorn as Thorongil serves in the armies of King Thengel of Rohan, and Steward Ecthelion II of Gondor
# September 22, 2968 - Frodo Baggins is born
# 2978 - Boromir is born
# 2980 - Arwen pledges her hand in marriage to Aragorn; Frodo Baggins loses both of his parents in a boating accident; Aragorn, in the service of the Steward of Gondor Ecthelion II leads a taskforce south and kills the Captain of the Haven, ruler of Umbar; Samwise Gamgee born;[14] Théoden, son of Thengel, becomes seventeenth king of Rohan after the death of his father.
# 2982 - Birth of Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry)
# 2983 - Birth of Faramir
# 2989 - Frodo Baggins comes under the guardianship of Bilbo Baggins; a company of Dwarves, led by Balin, try to recolonize Moria
# 2990 - Birth of Peregrin Took (Pippin)
# 2991 - Birth of Éomer
# 2994 - Balin is killed; the dwarf-colony in Moria is destroyed
# 2995 - Birth of Éowyn

so yeah, fair amount of notable **** to work off of in that timeline

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stuff in the hobbit that is alluded to but not fully explained [Mirkwood being all ****ed up because Sauron's essence was there, + what Gandolf is doing when he disappears throughout The Hobbit]

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I suppose it could end with Moria. Still, I think there's a reason it's a timeline and not a book.

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timeline is based off books.

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Kunlun

I'll definitely be looking forward to watching these movies.


LINK: http://www.variety.com/VR1117984595.html

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