The Hobbit...

Doesn't seem like PJ is directing, only Executive Producing. Who would be your choice as director? I'm going to be a little obscure and vote for Chris Noonan who did Babe. The Hobbit has a more innocent vibe than LOTR, and he's already worked with Andrew Lesnie.
 
How about Andrew Adamson?

He did ...Narnia, and is from New Zealand. Seems like he would have no problem handling the material and a basis for good rapport with Jackson.
 
I didn't like Narnia. Thought the first 1/3 was good, but the deeper they got into the fantasy world the less it worked for me.
 
Sam Raimi has shown interest in directing "The Hobbit". As far as two films goes, I have no idea how they would stretch "The Hobbit" across two films unless they made them shorter (1 hour 30 minutes or 2 hours per one) than the LOTR films (3 hours per one, 4+ with extended). The fill in the gap movie sounds interesting but what could they show? All I could think of is whether there is some story in the other Middle Earth books (The Cimeralladingdong, or whatever it's called, and the Children of Some Guy book they came out with recently).
 
Batutta said:
Doesn't seem like PJ is directing, only Executive Producing. Who would be your choice as director? I'm going to be a little obscure and vote for Chris Noonan who did Babe. The Hobbit has a more innocent vibe than LOTR, and he's already worked with Andrew Lesnie.
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how about George "Babe: Pig in the City / Mad Max" Miller
 
So, Guillermo Del Torro is directing The Hobbit now. They're still in talks, but he says he's going to direct. I read that he turned down Potter 7 to do it. Will he measure up?
 
he seems to share a similar visual signature to jackson. most people probably won't know the difference. and with jackson writing and producing, i'm sure his name will be billed above the title anyway. will he measure up? i don't think he's any better or worse a filmmaker than jackson. they seem (at least to me) to be cut form the same cloth and is a very capable storyteller, given he has a great story to tell. when he doesn't, you get Blade II.
 
hmmm ... I don't know if I would agree with that 100%.

Jackson created a believable world with fantasy elements. Meaning ... it all looked pretty real and was not all that stylized.

Del Torro seems to create worlds that feel much more fantastical, broad, more like he creates fantasy worlds that have realistic elements. There seems to be a bit more of a child like magical feeling to the whole cloth of the the thing.

You may be right that audiences won't know the difference depending on how much free reign he's given and how much they say ... "intepret this material" vs. "interpret this material as part of the franchise"

I think Jackson is endlessly inventive and a great story teller, I just think Del Torro's voice is a bit more distinctive and his films feel a tad more personal.

IMHO :)
 
hahah

Well the concept and how far they take it, definitely.

But there's nothing about how its shot, or how one moment carries to the next, and the world that feels as auteur or other worldly as Del Torro's stuff including his early stuff, again, IMHO.
 
Im the wrong person to be making judgments on these two. Never was a fan of either. Devil's Backbone i liked quite bit. And I want to go back and revisit Cronos. Haven't seen that since it came out. I'll probably get pummeled for saying this but I found very little of the LOTR trilogy worked for me. And the intense violence in Pans Labyrinth traumatized me to the degree that I kept the rest of the film at arm's length.
 
The LOTR trilogy is my favorite series of movies. I was thoroughly unimpressed by Pan's Labyrinth. I am a bit skeptical of the choice of director and would much rather see Sam Raimi do it, but Pete knows what he'd doing and if he endorses Del Torro, then maybe I should give him the benefit of the doubt.
 
kyle.presley said:
The LOTR trilogy is my favorite series of movies. I was thoroughly unimpressed by Pan's Labyrinth. I am a bit skeptical of the choice of director and would much rather see Sam Raimi do it, but Pete knows what he'd doing and if he endorses Del Torro, then maybe I should give him the benefit of the doubt.
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what if Peter Jackson endorses him because he likes Pan's Labyrinth?
 
Sweet freaking Jesus, anybody but Sam Raimi. I mean, I'm talking Michael Bay before Sam Raimi. :D

That said, I'm not sure that Del Torro is the right guy myself; I think he's certainly got the experience in bringing a fantasy world to life, but all his stuff seems a little (or a lot) on the dark side. I've always viewed "Hobbit" as being a much lighter piece than LotR, so that part is worrying me a little...
 
Well, it's official, Del Toro is doing The Hobbit...not sure about it. I'm still not convinced about Del Toro's ability to tell a cohesive narrative. Pan's Labyrinth felt like two separate movies flimsily sewn together. Hellboy had its charms but was all over the place. At least he's got great source material, even more movie friendly than LOTR, and with Jackson's guiding hand it may come out okay. Miller would have been great, or even Chris Noonan who did the first Babe.
 
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