Director Guillermo Del Toro knows he’s been entrusted a real responsibility with the movie adaptation of The Hobbit, check those interviews made a while ago:

Hobbit by Director Guillermo del Toro

We are all longing for a new movie saga based on J.R.R. Tolkien‘s fantasy novels! Let’s hope that Guillermo Del Toro will bring us a great Hobbit movie! 2011, the scheduled year of release for the Hobbit movie, seems so far suddenly!
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