The Hobbit Was Meant to be Directed by Guillermo Del Toro The Hobbit Went From Being 1 Film, to 2, & Ultimately 3 Early scripting efforts were conducted through collaborative video chats.

As with The Hobbit trilogy, Guillermo del Toro received screenwriting credit on Robert Zemeckis' straight-to-HBO Max movie of Roald Dahl's The Witches due to writing an earlier draft of the script.

Del Toro's proposed involvement in The Hobbit was initially greeted with palpable excitement. Although his movies have not historically been known for the same epic scale and extravagance as ...

Guillermo del Toro has only made eight films. Sure, a ninth is on the way (with 10 on deck after that), but he’s become such a well-known pop culture persona, that number feels low.

Guillermo del Toro is slated to write, direct, or produce at least 11 movies in the next decade. He's got the chops, but he's only human. The two Hobbit flicks alone will take roughly three years ...

Guillermo del Toro will no longer direct The Hobbit, but will continue for the next several months to polish the scripts for the two-part Lord of the Rings prequel alongside Peter Jackson ...

Maybe it doesn’t matter after Sunday, when Del Toro dropped the bombshell on the One Ring, the official website for fans of the J.R.R. Tolkien books and their film adaptations.

Cate Blanchett, who appeared in both trilogies as the elf Galadriel, remembers when del Toro was in charge of the project and wonders what the unique director would have brought to the franchise.

May 15, 2023 at 3:49 pm PDT. Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro will take part in a public conversation at the Portland Art Museum on June 23 as part of the exhibit Guillermo del ...

The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE, Local 800) will honor Guillermo del Toro with its William Cameron Menzies Award, recognizing his visually striking and emotionally rich body of work.