Rotten Tomatoes has an exclusive interview with Guillermo del Toro, where he discusses his approach to directing the upcoming Hobbit movie:

“When Tolkien wrote the book he was not making a prequel … and if there are gaps in the logic of the use or the powers of the ring between the first film and the trilogy, they will be the same gaps that Tolkien had writing the book. We’ll try to deal with it, but I’m not going to betray the spirit of the book in order to fit the cinematic incarnation.”

I’m happy that Del Toro is planning to stay true to the spirit of the book, but I’d still like it to fit well with the previous LOTR films - visually and thematically. It’ll be interesting to see if GDT can pull it off.

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Variety is reporting that M. Night Shyamalan’s next movie will be an R-rated apocalyptic film titled The Happening.

Shyamalan + apocalypse + rated-R sounds great to me. I’ve liked everything the guy has done (though I haven’t seen Lady in the Water). I like this part of the article:

Tom felt strongly about making this my first R-rated picture,” Shyamalan said. “We talked about trying to get the kind of intensity that is present in ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ and the kind that Guillermo del Toro got in `Pan’s Labyrinth.’ The impact of the beautiful things in that movie wouldn’t have landed as strongly if the film had not been R rated.”

Sounds great. And he’s right: Guillermo rocks. See Pan’s Labyrinth if you haven’t already.

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It’s a couple of days old now, but comingsoon.net has reported that Daniel Radcliffe will be back for the final two Harry Potter films.

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