THE HOBBIT will shoot for one whole year

by Matt Holmes

Guillermo del Toro will film THE HOBBIT in a grueling 370 day shoot in New Zealand, by far the largest and longest filming schedule he will ever take on in his career. It actually beats out the length Peter Jackson spent filming the three LORD OF THE RINGS films where principal photography lasted 274 days though he did work on the movie for four years with very lengthy pre and post production schedules. del Toro also mentions in the live Blu-Ray chat he conducted this week to celebrate the release of HELLBOY 2: THE GOLDEN ARMY that he is hoping that HELLBOY creator Mike Mignola will join his dream team of professionals on the film, citing the following as the top of his wish list...

Hopefully Mignola, Barlowe, Spectral Motion, Guillermo Navarro and others€
Filming will begin sometime 2010, with casting set to begin early 2009. Previously del Toro said we would start hearing casting news at around Christmas time this year. THE HOBBIT Part I will be released in December 2011 with Part II coming a whole year later. source - coming soon

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.