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In case you haven’t been keeping up with the news on THE HOBBIT, which will be a two-movie adaptation produced by THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy’s Peter Jackson, and directed by Guillermo del Toro, we’ll see if we can catch you up.  In the fall of 2009, rumors were flying about that the movies might be in 3-D, along with rumors the either Tom Cruise or David Tennant might be playing Bilbo Baggins, but Guillermo had this to say back then on TheOneRing.net:

“As a co-writer and director of this film (who works with the design teams, costume teams, creature teams, VFX teams every day of the week), let me be very clear one more time: we are not talking about 3D, we are NOT writing the screenplay for 3D right now- we are hiring my DoP Guillermo Navarro to shoot the film and we are not discussing 3D with him either or with WETA digital or WB or anyone else.

That should be a little less sidestepping, I hope.

If after AVATAR the market may change and demands are put upon us, etc that is in the future.

But if such things happen and we start discussing 3D down the line, I’ll let it be know here at TORN because that’s the proper way of doing things.

But make no mistake- I’ve been living in NZ for almost a year now and we have not been discussing 3D.

When we do, I’ll make sure your source finds out.”

And then followed up with saying this about James Cameron:

“Jim has been right in the past and he may be right in the future. He is dead-on about the imminent conversion of film into an expanding 3-D field – at least in most blockbusters and I know of, at least, 4 or 5 major filmmakers preparing 3D films right now. Some of them seriously artistic and ungimmicky!!

I’ve seen AVATAR and I was absolutely blow away by it!! I myself expect to explore 3D soon enough- it is the future, just not my immediate future.

And no- neither David Tennant nor Tom Cruise are Bilbo and we are not redesigning Gollum.”

Well now, with the overwhelming success of James Cameron’s AVATAR, it looks like Guillermo is hinting that 3-D may in fact be on the discussion table.  This was posted at TheOneRing.net:

“I wouldn’t read much on it just yet, but now, after all this time, after AVATAR doing the Box Office it did, we have had enquires from above about The Hobbit being in 3-D.

No impositions or heavy leaning. Just enquires. Just fulfilling my promise to let you all know if discussions ever started.”

I know, I know, you’re probably beyond sick of hearing about how EVERY film getting made these days is going down the 3-D road, but the idea of a Guillermo del Toro-directed version of THE HOBBIT being in 3-D, in this writer’s opinion, could be truly fantastic.  Just imagine Jackson and del Toro working together, and creating a J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired vision that utilizes that technology.  Granted, things are still up in the air for the moment, but AVATAR (like it or not) is changing everyone’s point of view on movies.  Let’s see what happens!

Source: TheOneRing.net via SlashFilm

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