Guillermo del Toro, the director of the dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth, has admitted that he has never been into Tolkien’s brand of high fantasy. salon If Tolkien was influenced in 2006, del Toro said: I don’t like swords and sorcery, I hate all that. ‘”, on the other hand, conceded the director. entertainment weekly He never finished reading The Lord of the Rings. “I did my best to read the trilogy,” he said. “I couldn’t. It was very dense »(but he loved to read« The Hobbit »).
However, in an ironic twist of fate, del Toro was temporarily set to direct an adaptation of “The Hobbit,” leaving some wondering why the director would go along with that in Middle-earth. Knowing what del Toro had said before and that the film would require a significant amount of time, this decision seemed like a mistake to many viewers.
Guillermo del Toro’s movies are great in their own right. But asking him to change his style to suit Tolkien or Peter Jackson would have told Taikia Waititi to make it more of a “Batman” movie than a fun and subversive movie like “Thor: Ragnarok.” with the flow. So maybe del Toro’s departure from the project was for the best.
