Guillermo leaves Middle Earth
Posted by red pill junkie at 15:29, 31 May 2010
Citing delays in the project and financial questions surrounding MGM, Del Toro announced Sunday that he is dropping out of filming the "The Hobbit," the prequel to J.R.R. Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings."
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22 November 2004
2 weeks 14 hours
Tolkien will write another book, 37 years of being dead hasn't stopped him. He will recover from this too.
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We are the cat.
12 April 2007
1 hour 20 min
I was so looking forward to seeing Del Toro's take on the Shire, and I'm sure as hell won't be able to wait another 40 years until Tolkien's new book gets a movie deal :-/
Kind of ironic, if you think about it. Racists often claim that Mexicans are lazy. But it's because of MGM's idleness that Guillermo had to make the decision, lest it affected his other multiple projects in the back burner.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
1 May 2004
18 hours 42 min
It's all those film execs insisting on inserting a Hobbit side trip to a tropical island like they keep seeing in the news.
I'm not bummed. Guillermo will have more time for Hellboy 3!!!
12 April 2007
1 hour 20 min
I don't know if it's more of an issue with MGM —the current holders of Tolkien's copyrights for film— being broke, than a delay brought up by trying to tell the story of Bilbo's high school years so they can cast Zac Effron for the part.
This still will be Guillermo's decade, for sure. I want to read the second book of his vampire trilogy already :)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie