There has been a lot of back and forth on Guillermo del Toro‘s upcoming Lord of the Rings spin off The Hobbit and it looks like the recent rumors that it’s been pushed off until next year may not be true. With both del Toro and Peter Jackson saying that the scripts have been completed and ready to go since April, they have been waiting for one thing just like every other filmmaker out there , the holy grail… I mean the green light.

Although no announcements have officially been made, our friends over at MarketSaw have said that they have a reliable source (which they normally do) from the 3D team that has been confirmed on the project who has said that the movie is moving forward. Their source told them when they asked about pre-productions beginning now:

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Guillermo del Toro is the man who will usher in another series of Middle Earth stories with his adaptation of The Hobbit. The film that has been in development for years has finally picked up some speed and should go into production soon. According to an interview with the art designer Richard Taylor, del Toro was given the directing reigns because producer Peter Jackson believed that he could add something new to the series that would put a fresh spin on the tale.

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Was there ever a doubt in anyone’s mind that Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of The Hobbit might be in 3D? Apparently it’s the wave of the future even though the technology has been around for 50 years. According to the fan forum The One Ring, the director went on to confirm what we’ve suspected all along.

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Every week it seems like The Hobbit becomes the center of attention regarding its casting, budget and everything else under the sun. The last update we got for the film was from producer Peter Jackson, and he stated that every role was set to be recast except for Ian Mckellen‘s Gandalf. This had people worried because he made no mention of poor Andy Serkis as Gollum, so director Guillermo del Toro wanted to set the record straight.

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With MGM on the verge of bankruptcy, many thought that spelled the end for The Hobbit, but according to the The Hollywood Reporter MGM has secured support from key lenders to give the studio enough cash to proceed with its participation in the Guillermo del Toro adaptation — now, you can breathe.

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Disney goes creepy. Dick Cook, the chairman of Walt Disney announced this morning at a Disney Presentation at D23 that Guillermo del Toro will be leading Disney’s new label “Disney Double Dare You” which will be animated films that are “meant to scare” and be filled with “chills and thrills.”

The project will be lead by Del Toro and is meant to bring back the imaginative and scary  side of Disney. Del Toro was not able to be their in person because he was busy with The Hobbit in New Zealand, but he did make a big screen appearance where he told us that he will be behind all of them and intends to make them a “scary, thrilling experience” like the title alludes to.

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Guillermo del Toro has something up his sleeve and it’s not related to short, hairy hobbits. The director was kind enough to give us a few hints about another highly anticipated project he’s working on. For those of you who don’t crawl the Tolkien-related forums and blogs, we gotcha covered. Check out the latest update from the Gothic, horror, comic infused itinerary of Mr. del Toro.

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I know a lot of you are asking yourselves, “Who is Deadman, and what does Guillermo del Toro have to do with him?” Deadman is a DC comic property about a hero, whose superpower in a nutshell is that he’s dead. OK, that’s not all he has going for himself, but that’s the overall idea. According to Screenrant the award winning del Toro is producing a live action adaptation of the comic for the big screen, and he’s already found a director.

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The cult Spanish language horror film, The Orphanage is getting an American makeover. The original 2007 film was directed by Guillermo del Toro protege Juan Antonio Bayona. According to THR, actor-director-producer Larry Fessenden has been hired to helm the English language adaptation of the film.

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