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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Hollywood director Guillermo del Toro said Monday that production delays have forced him to quit the planned film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a two-part ...

Cate Blanchett, who appeared in both trilogies as the elf Galadriel, remembers when del Toro was in charge of the project and wonders what the unique director would have brought to the franchise.

But as things turn out, Del Toro would soon leave the project after months of work, and Peter Jackson would step back into the directors chair for the Hobbit Trilogy we know today.

As with The Hobbit trilogy, Guillermo del Toro received screenwriting credit on Robert Zemeckis' straight-to-HBO Max movie of Roald Dahl's The Witches due to writing an earlier draft of the script.

Frankenstein and his monster in Guillermo del Toro's Netflix movie. Credit: KEN WORONER/NETFLIX July, 2008: In 2008, the filmmaker was hired to direct The Hobbit for Peter Jackson.

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Jackson was originally planning to step aside and let Guillermo del Toro direct a two-film adaptation of The Hobbit. Del Toro remains a credited screenwriter alongside Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens ...