There and F#$ked Again
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?Guillermo del Toro, director of The Hobbit, is no longer director of The Hobbit. He quit this weekend after MGM Announced yet another series of delays for the movies, which finally started to eat up into time del Toro was contractually obligated to make other films. /Film also says that the newest delay would have meant del Toro would have had to spend six years making the two Hobbit movies in New Zealand instead of the originally intended three; I’m not exactly sure how that works but holy shit that’s a long time to make someone live somewhere to make a damn movie. del Toro will still co-write the screenplays with Peter Jackson.
Speaking of Jackson, he’s said he may actually direct the two Hobbit movies himself, although I wouldn’t bet any money on that happening. In fact, I wouldn’t bet on The Hobbit movies happening it all at this point. If MGM can’t get their shit together by this point, I doubt they ever will. Is this the price we’re paying for a perfect Scott Pilgrim movie? Is this the other shoe dropping? If so, I’ll take it.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.