Hobbit Talk

In an interview with fearnet.com Guillermo Del Toro had this to say about making The Hobbit: “Visually, I have many things planned that are incredibly beautiful and things that you have never seen before. In terms of the story telling…the idea is to be as faithful as I can to the experience that I had reading it when I was 11. It’s not by any stretch of the imagination all one tone, it starts lighter and it ends up darker and melancholic and there’s a certain loss of innocence. And I think visually I plan to do a lot of stuff that is, I hope, ground breaking." And about the second movie: "Right now it's all speculation. The idea right now is that it will form like a ramp up…like expanding the mythology a little bit and in that we have to be very careful. It has to be done as carefully as possible. I think that if there wasn’t a second film in mind, we wouldn’t do it. The fact that we’re attempting it is because we believe there is. The idea is to add to the mythology of the trilogy and the end of The Hobbit."

So maybe they won't do it after all, but if The Hobbit makes the kind of money it is proposed to make, there's a good chance movie #2 will happen. More on this as we find it but below is a link to the fear.com story: