[AntonioXYZ]

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During a recent live chat for the Hellboy II: The Golden Army DVD and Blu-ray releases, director Guillermo del Toro revealed some new details about The Hobbit production schedule.

Thanks to BilboHobbit.com for the transcription.

Universal announced a pretty busy slate for you after The Hobbit. Will we see a Hellboy 3?

Guillermo del Toro: If its up to me- yes!! But it is a corporate decision and regimes change very rapidly at these studios.

There any professionals who worked with you on Hellboy II that will be joining you on the Hobbit?

Guillermo del Toro: Hopefully Mignola, Barlowe, Spectral Motion, Guillermo Navarro and others...

Will you be using Danny Elfman as a composer again on future projects?

Guillermo del Toro: Absolutely, but not until after The Hobbit films.

Do you think filming Hellboy II helped prepare you for filming The Hobbit?

Guillermo del Toro: Technically, yes- but that's not the challenge in The Hobbit. The challenge is to create and expand a massive universe and be as immersive as the Trilogy was. To approach Tolkien's book with the right mixture of reverence, enthusiasm and invention.

Will here be any cool creature in The Hobbit like in Hellboy II?

Guillermo del Toro: Many many more and we will be pushing the goblin kindgom. we will be pushing smaug, the spiders of mirkwood. we will be pushing them to the edge of technology where we will fuse animatronics and cgi into a seamless new art form in creating creatures, i think.

Do you plan to use any particular effects or techniques in The Hobbit that were used in Hellboy II?

Guillermo del Toro: Well, yes, but used in a different way. You will see some mind-boggling mixture of CGI / Puppetry like never before. The demarcation of where one technique ends and the other begins will NOT be as clean as in HBII or BLADE II or PAN'S LABYRINTH. I am going to push further than ever on both fronts.

When does filming for The Hobbit begin?

Guillermo del Toro: It will begin in 2010 and we will shoot for about 370 days or so...

[Erawise]

I'm pretty positive that's not the real poster.

[AntonioXYZ]

I'm pretty positive that's not the real poster.

*shrug* i dunno, looks like its a fan mock-up to me as well. As far as I know movieweb.com is a fairly reputable source... So it puzzles me that they would risk legal action by trying to pass bogus concept art off as the studios legitimate intellectual property

[SaLifHoq]

can't wait to see Smaug on the bigscreen. I'm also looking foward to some goblins. Were there any goblins in LOTR? I thought i remember a fleeting glimse in the original battle at the beginning of Fellowship. Don't goblins have pig like faces?

anyways, I loved Guillermo's style in Pan's Labrinthe. It will be interesting to see how he melds that with the Trilogy's style. Surely he'll have to make it seem like the same world, but at the same time, he'd like to have his own unique visual style.

[HexcewlyRette]

I like the LOTR series; but to be honest; not sure that the hobbit would be as much a hit as the others. If they were going to make it, they would have before fellowship. At this point; we need something new!

[Assentesy]

Fake poster. They would never put "So it Begins" on a poster for The Hobbit because any respectable fan of the mythology knows it "began" thousands of years earlier. Gollum would also not be on the front like that, as though he's a main character. I expect Gollum will be a shadowy, cave-dwelling figure with a piercing voice for no more than 15 minutes of the movie.

[Yarmark]

Pretty sure George Bush is the wrong choice for Bilbo.

[Erawise]

*shrug* i dunno, looks like its a fan mock-up to me as well. As far as I know movieweb.com is a fairly reputable source... So it puzzles me that they would risk legal action by trying to pass bogus concept art off as the studios legitimate intellectual property

the movieweb article you linked to never said the poster was an official one. As far as I could see they never even mentioned the poster picture.

[AntonioXYZ]

the movieweb article you linked to never said the poster was an official one. As far as I could see they never even mentioned the poster picture.

Looks like they're using it to make $$$ to me

http://www.movieweb.com/movies/film/FIoXWrpvpVrxst

I figure that in and of itself would be some kind of infringement, no?

[desmond001]

Why would they release a poster over a year before production starts?

[uchetrip]

That poster seem a little weird but sure the movie will be great hopefully. I cant wait. [thumbup]

[Erawise]

Why would they release a poster over a year before production starts?

They wouldn't.

They haven't even cast or announced Ian Holm as Bilbo but that poster obviously depicts a younger version of that specific actor. So that alone should tell us that it isn't official.