A piece by Eric Snider details how MGM’s financial woes are delaying the production of the Peter Jackson produced Benicio Del Toro directed Hobbit movie. Jackson wrote the script and commented during the Lovely Bones release interviews it was finished. Fans await casting for Bilbo.

Del Toro will give LOTR fans a new Hobbit, but will Ron Perlman be the voice of Smaug? beorn the Bear-man?

Hobbit films direcotr Benicio Del Toro describes how the first Hobbit film will be the Hobbit book sotry, but the second film will be a ramp up to the LOTR film series imitative of Jackson’s shooting style, making a seamless nod to the LOTR trilogy fr a five film symphony.