Jackson and Del Toro Talk a Little ‘Hobbit’ Format

Empire magazine sat down with directors Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro for their 20th Anniversary issue due out next week.   In the interview, the directors discuss ‘The Hobbit,’ and their approach to spanning the story across two films.

Here’s what they had to say:

“We’ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur,† says Del Toro.

“We decided it would be a mistake to try to cram everything into one movie,† adds Jackson. “The 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.†

There has been speculation that the second of these two films would be an original story that gapped ‘The Hobbit’ with the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy.   That, apparently, is not the case, and the story played out in ‘The Hobbit’ will span two films.

What do you think?   Is there enough story in ‘The Hobbit’ to span across two different films?   Should they have set the second film to tell an original story that bridged the two different stories?   What are you overall thoughts on Del Toro taking over the reigns from Jackson?   Let us know by commenting below!

Source: Empire Online