Comic-Con: The Hobbit

[dalmatianjaws]

From the onering.net panel:

Sitting in the back of a room jam-packed with LOTR fans is always an interesting experience.  Since theonering.net is "unofficial", this meeting is pure speculation, sprinkled with information garnered from media sources and their own message boards (of which Guillermo del Toro himself is an active poster)  The panelists are  die hard fans themselves, so the feel is far less formal than a normal panel.  Fans shout out opinions on possible casting, (All original cast members got cheers, Tom Cruise and Shia LeBouf got resounding boooooss) and Guillermo's artistic choices, and the panelists work it right into the conversation.

From the information, Guillermo himself sounds like a big fan, and the ideas he's putting forth sound like a fan's dream come true.  He wants Smaug to epitomize THE DRAGON.  The casting so far seems solid (both Andy Serkus and Sir Ian McKellan will be resuming their roles)  Now I just need to figure out how to skip to 2011 to see it.

-Joel Champagne
Redfenceproject.com