‘The Hobbit’ Delayed Until Summer

While Guillermo Del Toro’s The Hobbit may have survived MGM’s recent dismemberment process, it will also have to face another hurdle before it sees the light of day: the film’s production has been delayed until mid-summer 2010.

This means at least 3 more months of waiting (the film, produced by Peter Jackson, was intended to begin production in March 2010), and who knows what it could imply for the release dates of the two-part film in December of 2011 and 2012.

Here’s what Peter Jackson had to say about the delay during a press conference for The Lovely Bones:

“We’re currently working on the second script which we hope to have completed by the end of this year or beginning of next.  When the scripts are completed, we can begin with the exact calculation of the necessary budget.  We hope to start filming in the middle of next year. However, we’ve received no green light from the studio yet.”

Let’s hope this is the only spot of bad news that we encounter as we eagerly await The Hobbit. It’s far too early to tell whether or not this will stand toe-to-toe with Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I’m more confident in Del Toro than I would be with any other director aside from Jackson himself.

Source: TheOneRing

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