Guillermo “ Pan ’s Labyrinth ” Del Toro is switching into high gear wheel on his next project , a two - movie adaptation of The Hobbit . This novel is the prequel to Lord of the Rings , and tells the story of Frodo ’s uncle Bilbo Baggins , the hobbit who helped dispatch a flying dragon . Though it ’s not almost as epic as LoTR in scope , Del Toro bring out yesterday that he and producer Peter Jackson think it merit two movies that tell one , uninterrupted story . Sounds like what the Wachowski Brothers did with the two Matrix sequels , which were fundamentally one motion-picture show broken in half and released within months of each other . Can this puzzle out well than the Matrix subsequence did ? Del Toro told iF magazine :
The volume is such an effortless read and it seems like it cash in one’s chips like a breeze , but there are so many events in The Hobbit . Especially if you ’re convey into account , ancillary stuff , there ’s so much there . It really is just containable into two movies .
He added that these pic are basically one motion picture , not a “ bridge ” to LoTR :
That was utter about early on , as I pronounce , we stop talking about in terms of a bridge flick , it ’s a individual film . We say , “ we ’re speak about a ‘ moving-picture show ’ and we ’re talking about two chapter of a film or two episodes . ”
It ’s hard to say no to more monster - making from Del Toro and Jackson , who have proven themselves masters of the genre . But it remains to be seen whether the format of two extremely - get in touch films really wreak for audience : The Matrix sequels did n’t do as well as studios hop , and the only other major director to test this format late was Quentin Tarantino with Kill Bill . What these couplet movies had in common was that both were exceedingly bloated . There ’s a lot to admire in Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions , and the same goes for Kill Bill 1 and 2 . Still , both got bogged down in prospicient sequences ( endless dialogue , struggle scenes that went from beautiful to boring ) that would have hit their right address on the editing room trading floor if the managing director had been disciplined enough to make just one pic . My concern is that The Hobbit might go the same mode as these precedents . Jackson claim three heroic LoTR books and made three nearly stand - alone movies . Now he ’s steering Del Toro to make two long movies out of one book ? Sure there ’s a lot going on in the Koran , but what feels fast - pace and “ effortless ” in JRR Tolkein ’s prose could come across as overlong and costless on screen . Audiences already kvetch about some of the excess of Return of the King — did we really call for the 10 - bit slo - second reunion view , for instance ? ideate if Jackson had made each book into two movies . You ’re peach about a lot of Ent verse readings . I hope Del Toro can make his Hobbit flicks intense and poignant , but I fear the two - movie data format will give us world - build up lard . Hobbit Updates[via iF powder store ]
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