Guillermo del Toro not thinking about filming Hobbit films in 3D

by Liam on August 29, 2009 · 3 comments

smaug2 A few weeks ago word was flying around that The Hobbit films would be filmed in 3D. Upon hearing this TheOneRing.net threw up a poll asking if Tolkien fans wanted to see a three dimensional Middle Earth, and 75% of them said they didn’t (I agree with them). Then TheOneRing.net decided to ask director Guillermo del Toro if all this 3D talk was true:

Not wanting to disrupt the creative process going on around a pair of films based on “The Hobbit,” we nevertheless asked Guillermo del Toro just what exactly, if anything, was up with 3D Hobbit movies. Since he is the director of the films in question (you know, the guy who picks the director of photography, the cameras and formats and all that movie stuff) we thought he might know. Turns out he did and he told us, “I can safely say that, as of this moment, there are absolutely NO conversations about doing the HOBBIT films in 3D.”

Peter Jackson is a fan of 3D and will probably use it a lot in the future, having filmed Tintin in 3D, however it’s Guillermo del Toro who decides what’s happening. In my opinion Middle Earth is epic enough and doesn’t really need to be in 3D. What do you think?

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  • zachrW

    thank god that it wont be 3D….i realy hope they dont start talking about it again. THe hobbit is my favorite book in the middle earth serise or saga. but i dont want to have my brain and eyes hurt and feel tired while watching a movie that i am waiting for. no this will be like 3 hours, and if it was 3D it would be hard to watch, 3D makes you hurt it does, and i dont think its good for your eyes. im not an eye docotor, but yeah every one i know hates watching 3D couse it makes em tired and eyes hurt. so yeah my point? thank god that BILBO will be 2D.

  • zachrW

    thank god that it wont be 3D….i realy hope they dont start talking about it again. THe hobbit is my favorite book in the middle earth serise or saga. but i dont want to have my brain and eyes hurt and feel tired while watching a movie that i am waiting for. no this will be like 3 hours, and if it was 3D it would be hard to watch, 3D makes you hurt it does, and i dont think its good for your eyes. im not an eye docotor, but yeah every one i know hates watching 3D couse it makes em tired and eyes hurt. so yeah my point? thank god that BILBO will be 2D.