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In an interview with Empire<\/a>, producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro divulged their plans for splitting \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d into two movies:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur,\u201d says Del Toro.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided it would be a mistake to try to cram everything into one movie,\u201d adds Jackson. \u201cThe essential brief was to do The Hobbit, and it allows us to make The Hobbit in a little more style, if you like, of the [LOTR] trilogy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was earlier reported that the second Hobbit movie would cover the 60 years between what happened in \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d and what happened in \u201cThe Lord of the Rings.\u201d That would have meant lots of non-Tolkien filler. So I think this is a much better idea. I\u2019m also intrigued by del Toro being the director. As he showed in \u201cPan\u2019s Labyrinth\u201d and \u201cHell Boy II,\u201d he is a master of making up evocative monsters and strangely effective hybrids of realism and fantasy. Though \u201cPan\u2019s\u201d was way too dark for a Tolkien tale, \u201cHell Boy\u201d suggested that del Toro could handle less heavy-handed fare.<\/p>\n

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In an interview with Empire, producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro divulged their plans for splitting \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d into two movies: \u201cWe\u2019ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur,\u201d says Del Toro. \u201cWe decided it would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-movies"],"yoast_head":"\nHobbit update<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In an interview with Empire, producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro divulged their plans for splitting "The Hobbit" into two movies:\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/04\/hobbit-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hobbit update\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In an interview with Empire, producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro divulged their plans for splitting "The Hobbit" into two movies:\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/04\/hobbit-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cranach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cranachblog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-04-30T13:22:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/04\/hobbit-update\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/04\/hobbit-update\/\",\"name\":\"Hobbit update\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-04-30T13:22:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-04-30T13:22:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\"},\"description\":\"In an interview with Empire, producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro divulged their plans for splitting \\\"The Hobbit\\\" into two movies:\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/04\/hobbit-update\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/04\/hobbit-update\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/04\/hobbit-update\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Hobbit update\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\",\"name\":\"Cranach\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\",\"name\":\"Gene Veith\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Gene Veith\"},\"description\":\"Gene Edward Veith, Jr. is a writer and retired literature professor, serving as Provost Emeritus at Patrick Henry College. 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