In the never-ending drama that is The Hobbit’s journey to the big screen, we’ve hit another pothole: Guillermo del Toro, the much-loved and lauded director of Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, will no longer be at the helm for our next trip to Middle Earth.
According to a statement he posted on TheOneRing.net, del Toro will continue to collaborate on the script with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens (the writers of The Lord of the Rings). His reason for departing the films are the expanded timetables, which he foresees preventing him from other projects he was intending to work on.
Peter Jackson, who directed the Rings films and is on board as a producer, has said they don’t anticipate this development will halt the production schedule.
Was getting the LOTR trilogy made also this wacky?