Del Toro to Direct new Hobbit Movie

Mexican Director Guillermo Del Toro has been confirmed as the director of the new Hobbit Movie. Written in the 1920s
The Hobbit story about the book
, which the Lord of the Rings movie is taken from Since 2006 fans have been awaiting this film which was supposed to be directed by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings director) The widely expected announcement was made today after several Hobbit hints from Del Toro in the past weeks. Weta will be doing all the effects again and the same script team that did Lord Of The Rings will be working with Del Toro, that being Jackson, Walsh and Philippa Boyens. Del Toro siad that he would be moving to New Zealand for four years to fascilitate the filming of the two movies. The first is expected to be finished by 2011 and the second the folllowing year. Fans are ecstatic over the movie as evident from the
the hobbitblog fanbased website. In the last two years there has been much campaigning and petitions via the internet such as let the hobbbit happen website to create the Hobbit movie.