Erik Davis just called in from the floor of NYCC, where Guillermo del Toro held a panel on Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. According to Del Toro, he will know in about 4 to 5 days whether or not he's doing The Hobbit. He hopes that he gets to, but every day brings new battles, but he (and the world will) will know within a week whether he's on board. (I'm paraphrasing Del Toro by way of Davis!)If he doesn't do The Hobbit, he'll be doing another smaller film which he can control completely. It's called Planet Saturn: End of Days, and he just started writing it. It will be a smaller film that follows a boy named Saturn, who goes out to the grocery store and watches the apocalypse happen. Fire raining from the sky, doom and destruction, you name it. Del Toro considers it his third "childhood" film -- sounds as good and dark as his earlier work.
So, more "wait and see" but we have a time frame now. Things are definitely moving forward with The Hobbit!
Additionally, Davis says the stage set up for Hellboy 2 is "really cool" and there are real monsters flanking Del Toro and the stage panel. Too cool! I wish I was there to see it, with all my Cinematical friends.
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4-19-2008 @ 4:50PM
Adam Wright said...
What ever happened to "At the Mountains of Madness", his HP Lovecraft adaption? IMDB still shows it for 2010, the same year it shows for the Hobbit movie.
I was one of the few people who was excited that somebody might be making a good Lovecraft film...I'll be bummed if it turns out that At the Mountains of Madness is being put on the back burner or shelved so he can do these other movies.
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4-19-2008 @ 11:25PM
Erik Davis said...
Adam, del Toro mentioned that he wants to do Mountains but no one will finance it. Or at least that's what it sounded like; he was having problems finding the right financing. He said it may still happen one day.
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4-20-2008 @ 12:09AM
Monte said...
Don't you just hate it when the apocalypse happens while you're grocery shopping?
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4-20-2008 @ 11:14PM
Ray said...
Please, please, please...
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