The One Ring reports that Guillermo del Toro confirmed on their message boards that he would have a cameo in The Hobbit, much like the ones Peter Jackson prepared for himself in the trilogy. Here is part of what del Toro said: “I had a hand on the design of the creature and I will personally sculpt...

Ever since it was announced that The Hobbit was to be split into two movies, there has been a lot of discussion that the second film would continue beyond the book, conflating appendix material in order to connect the films to the larger trilogy. There is a lot that can be done with characters who had...

John Rhys-Davies told Empire recently that he had turned down the opportunity to play Gloin, Gimli’s father, in The Hobbit, stating unequivocally that he had already ruled it out. I’ll forget for the moment the possibility that Gimli could have been his own father and focus instead on his...

Fantasy usually attracts people whose imaginations are way more interesting than real life. Far from being eccentric, there is virtue in the way they spin together entire worlds out of pure ideas. It’s a quality that The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro has in abundance, which Ian McKellen discussed...

Someone call the Guinness Book of World Records: Mexican director Guillermo del Toro no longer needs to sleep, eat, or have missionary sex with his wife, because he’ll have to forgo all three simple pleasures of life if he wants to direct, produce, or write all the movies he plans to be doing from...

Peter Jackson, who will be settling for producing credits on the upcoming two “Hobbit” movies (after his Herculean-like work writing and directing the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, can you blame the guy?), and Guillermo Del Toro, who will be directing said movies, have apparently...

It’s not that there are a lot of movie news today, it’s just that there are a lot of really lame movie news today that doesn’t deserve a full post for themselves. So, here they all are, squeezed into one big post. First up is Christopher Lee, who tells Empire> magazine that he’s...

We already know that Guillermo Del Toro plans on having a number of actors from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy returning to reprise their roles in his two “The Hobbit” films (Ian McKellan and Andy Serkis will probably be back), but is one of them Viggo Mortensen? Yes, if Del...

You know, for a 68-year-old guy, Ian McKellen is incredibly spry. I can only hope I have half the energy this guy seems to have at this age, then I, too, can co-star in two of the biggest franchises in cinematic history — first in the “X-Men” films, then in the “Lord of the Rings”...

The trades reported that Guillermo del Toro was in talks with New Line Cinema to replace Peter Jackson on the live-action “The Hobbit” movies (yes, two movies, to be shot back-to-back) in January, but we haven’t heard anything concrete since. For a while there, it didn’t seem...

If New Line Cinema and MGM have their way, Guillermo del Toro will be the director of both “Hobbit” movies, which are currently being envisioned as a back-to-back project. This isn’t really a surprise; del Toro is one of two people whispered to have been in the running for the director’s...

A very interesting article in Variety today. As you know, these guys don’t report anything until they’ve gotten their facts straight (well, most of the time, or at least, more often than we Internet dorks do), so when they say Sam Raimi will be returning to his horror roots for “Drag...

Hear that? That’s the sound of every Lord of the Rings geek trying desperately not to wet his pants, because news is breaking fast that Peter Jackson, the lord of the Lord of the Rings himself, has agreed to produce both “The Hobbit” and its sequel, “The Hobbit 2″, and they’re...