The Hobbit... Cancelled?

[The Skirata Clan]

Yes. I am a movie fan and a huge Guillermo Del Toro fan and I was actually looking forward the to see the Hobbit movies. The man has vision and that is why Peter Jackson, director, producer, and writer of the LOTR trilogy and Hobbit producer and writer picked him. I just read that Del Toro has decided to step away from the director's chair because of the MGM mess. They are in bankruptcy putting the film in limbo along with the James Bond films. This MGM problem has prevented the film to even get green lit or approved. Del Toro and Jackson said that they had costumes, props, creatures, sets, animations, special fx, and even sequences ready. Both are writing the script for the film and will continue to do so. Jackson agreed with Del Toro's decision and said that his commitment to the film was amazing and that Del Toro had agreed to move to New Zealand and live there for 3 years, but the way things are going with MGM it might be for 6 years and Del Toro couldn't postpone other log term projects. Hopefully the studio can be bought by another studio like Universal or Sony. For now no more Hobbit or 007 in the near future. Although there are rumors of Hellboy 3. I would like to recommend to all of you a film called Los Ojos de Julia or Julia's Eyes produced by Del Toro and the guys that made The Orphanage. If you haven't seen The Orphanage then go watch it.