Guillermo del Toro will direct two films based on 'The Hobbit'

JRR Tolkien, as prequels to the saga of 'The Lord of The Rings', who led Peter Jackson (this time executive producer).
The Mexican filmmaker, who won three Oscar awards' Pan's Labyrinth ', shot the tapes in New Zealand. Studies: New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwiyn-Mayer have announced that filming will begin in 2009 and first delivery could premiering in 2010 and a year later, the second part. Although premieres separately, were surrounding the pair, as happened with the trilogy 'The Lord of the Rings'. He also director of 'Cronos,' 'The Devil's Backbone' and 'Hellboy' (whose sequel will be released in August) and produced 'The Orphanage'. Del Toro will move to New Zealand over the next four years to work with Jackson and his companies (Wingnut and Weta) in the production of the film. The very del Toro monitor next to Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens writing a screenplay whose hottest point will decide what part of the story of 'The Hobbit' gets the scissors to divide the book into two films. Distribution. So far no date for the start of filming or nothing is known of the division, in which Sir Ian McKellen wants to repeat as the magician Gandalf, although still to be seen whether other actors of the trilogy, whose characters also appear on 'The Hobbit ', Take up their roles. 'The Hobbit', which Tolkien wrote to his children in 1937, was developed some 60 years before the trilogy 'The Lord of The Rings', and recounts the journey that began a troop of dwarves, the accompanying Hobbit Bilbo Bolson, uncle of Frodo and the wizard Gandalf. All of them travelling towards the lonely mountain in search of treasure of the Dragon. An adventure that will be home to the famous trilogy, as it is on this trip when Bilbo manages to snatch the Ring Unico the creature Gollum.