Salon.com’s Andrew O’Hehir wrote an article blasting the decision to have Guillermo del Toro direct the upcoming The Hobbit. John Scalzi, who has begun blogging for SciFi Scanner, blasts back.
Most geeks are spittle-flinging happy that Pan’s Labyrinth director, Guillermo del Toro, has signed on to helm The Hobbit (and its ill-defined and almost certainly ill-advised extra-canonical sequel, which I henceforth dub The Hobbit 2: Electric Bilboloo), but most geeks are also not Salon.com film writer Andrew O’Hehir.
He makes some valid points about why del Toro might be a better choice than Peter Jackson, and even makes del Toro’s dislike of all things Hobbity sound like an asset.
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Maybe O’Hehir’s complaints are founded in the subtle reworkings of the original screenplay to metaphorically comment on the Basque separatist political philosophy. It’s either that, or the fact that the movie will be shot in Elvish with Esperanto subtitles.