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Guillermo Del Toro Speaks About The Hobbit

Source:  Total Film
Total Film recently spoke with filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro about his highly anticipated film The Hobbit, which he's working on new down in New Zealand with Peter Jackson. The interview is rather extensive, but here's an excerpt from the interview where he talks about the creatures of the film.

The way I phrased it to Weta, I said we would keep the DNA in the same gene pool as the Rings trilogy, but that we would generate a different type of character. For example, in the trilogy most of the creatures are brutish or inarticulate.

In The Hobbit, the creatures speak: Smaug has beautiful lines of dialogue; the Great Goblin has beautiful lines of dialogue; many creatures do. So we had to design them with a different approach because you are not just designing things that are scary.

I also wanted some of the monsters in The Hobbit to be majestic.

I wanted the Wargs to have a certain beauty so that you don't have a massively clear definition: what is beautiful is good and what is ugly is not. Some of the monsters are absolutely gorgeous.


Click Here! to read more from this article. The Hobbit will hit theaters in 2011 while The Hobbit Sequel is set for a 2012 release.


21 Comments


November 6th, 2009 5:27pm
By the way, everyone should read the whole interview, it's good.
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November 6th, 2009 5:15pm
I like your point Leng T'che. Add his influences, but don't let that take over the project
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November 6th, 2009 3:25pm
Yeah I see that now, thanks for clearing it up in the way you guys did, and not being douche bags about it. Either way I'm interested to see what he does, and even though his style is unique, I think his adaptation of it needs to have a good medium point, like add your influences but don't let it take over the project.
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November 6th, 2009 3:05pm
The problem is that most people think the hobbit is supposed to be just like lord of the rings when in reality it isn't. Read the hobbit and the lord of the rings. The only way you can see that it's ok to not copy everything PJ did.
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November 5th, 2009 10:19pm
yeah he was saying that he is trying to stay away from such a simple definition of pretty = good and ugly = bad. i think u misunderstood him.

and nothing against ur opinion but even if Del Toro doesn't step out of his box, so to speak, i would still be very happy with the movie, i love his style. and the hobbit doesn't have to match perfectly with LOTR cuz they r very different feeling stories.
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November 5th, 2009 9:03pm
Leng T'che, Del Torro is saying that he does not want beautiful=good ugly=bad
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November 5th, 2009 8:25pm
Its sounds like this is going to look like a typical Del Torro movie and not the Hobbit. Sorry if you don't agree with my opinion, but I see it straying already. Thats one of the things I dreaded when I heard he was directing this. I was hoping he would be able do something outside of himself if that makes any sense. I don't, maybe it comes out looking cool, who's to say, I just hope he creates some sort of variety, and doesn't make every last drop of it 'majestic'. And I'm sorry, but Del Torro saying beautiful is good and ugly is bad, is the dumbest shit I ever heard. They should be applied where fit, you can't have all your eggs in one basket and I do believe something can be ugly and still emote intelligence. I don't, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember there being some written rule about ugly=stupid. Either way lets see.
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November 5th, 2009 7:30pm
This is going to be awesome!!
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November 5th, 2009 6:52pm
This will be awesome
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November 5th, 2009 6:10pm
Darkness is ALL about the cock
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November 5th, 2009 5:38pm
Actually Darkness, the only thing GAY around here is your Avatar pic! Nice wife beater...GAAAAYYY!!!
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November 5th, 2009 5:26pm
do u mean gay like happy? and ur saying that ur GAYYYYYY like super happy bout this news?
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November 5th, 2009 3:15pm
hell yes
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November 5th, 2009 2:55pm
I like what I'm hearing.
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November 5th, 2009 2:55pm
GAYYYYYYYYYYYY
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November 5th, 2009 2:42pm
I love Del Toro, can't wait for this.
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November 5th, 2009 2:34pm
sounds great, i love the idea of making some of the monsters look appealing opposed to hideous.
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November 5th, 2009 2:28pm
Gets better by the day....can`t wait !!
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November 5th, 2009 2:24pm
i know seriously leave these guys alone i want to see this so bad
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November 5th, 2009 1:41pm
This is an excellent approach.
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November 5th, 2009 1:27pm
Please for the love of god.Stop interupting them so they can get this film out.
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