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Reject Robert Fure vents some steam about sequels that come long after they’re due.

With The Hobbit, Guillermo Del Toro has a big task in front of him: How can he please the fans? In a recent interview, he discussed this topic in a shockingly literal way.

When Empire were interviewing Christopher Lee last week, they probably expected to hear about how he loved working on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Perhaps they even hoped to get him to talk about his disgust at being cut out of Return of the King. However, what they got sounds like the start of a brilliant storyline..

The casting race is on for The Hobbit and it appears James McAvoy has the inside track to play Bilbo Baggins. Baggins is the wandering Hobbit who found the Ring.

I bet you thought the biggest threat to the world of the Hobbits was Gollum, Sauron and the one Ring. Think again, it’s Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R., who wants to shut down Peter Jackson’s two new films based on Tolkien’s The Hobbit directed by Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro.

Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro are throwing a surprise online bash to help kick-start the production of The Hobbit. And you’re invited. Unfortunately, it is BYOB…

So it turns out that Twilight’s filmmakers are pretty confident that their movie is going to be a success. So confident are they that they’re tossing around the idea that if Twilight does in fact do well in the first few weeks, then they set the filming of the sequel in motion immediately.

Oh yes, ’tis true my friends — Guillermo Del Toro, the master director who has previously blown our collective mind with the awesome badassery of Hellboy and the euphoric grit and beauty of Pan’s Labyrinth has finally made it official. He will be directing The Hobbit.

Elijah Wood is hoping to extend his career, so he goes sniffing back around Peter Jackson’s camp again. Nothing like going back to the well.

It could be a matter of days before Peter Jackson is announced as the director for 2 Hobbit films.