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Wednesday 8 October 2008

Guillermo del Toro talks about The Hobbit.


Guillermo del Toro spoke to MTV about The Hobbit films and how the story being two films will work.

“The reality is that we stopped talking the first movie and second movie, and we just started taking about the movie - the two episodes, or two parts, as if they were a single piece of narrative,” said del Toro. “We don’t even call it the bridge movie, we just call it ‘The Movie.’ And this is great. When we found what reverberated, and we found it in one of our virtual meetings - we understood. It’s a movie.”

Del Toro says that the second film will lead directly into The Fellowship of the Ring, and admits that even he doesn’t know when the book known as The Hobbit will end and the story bridging to the Lord of the Rings trilogy begins.

“We are finding out,” GDT quipped. “I think Smaug dies in the first movie. So draw your own conclusions.”

That death occurs in chapter 14 of the 19 chapter novel. That gives just 5 chapters for the second film which seems a bit flimsy to me. I still don't really see why it would have to be two films and sounds as if the second one will be a bit vague and pointless. However, del Toro is a man of vision so he may well pull this one out of his monster filled hat.

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