The Bear Minimum

I’m speaking of the upcoming Hobbit films, and the question now, again, as to who will be at the helm for them.

As an avid devourer of all literature, I’ve a few particular favourite genres. I personally love a good detective novel, one where I don’t know what will happen. I think that all started as a boy when I read Sherlock Holmes for the first time. Ahh, what fun that was! Anything by Dickens is another favourite genre, the man’s work is so brilliant I think it deserves a genre all to itself!

I do also love a good fantasy novel every now and then, too. That started when I read The Hobbit when I was young. My mother chose to read it to me as a bed time story when I was five years old. I could vividly imagine the cloaks of all the dwarves as they turned up at Bag End and ever since I’ve been hooked. I also loved The Lord of the Rings when I read it on my own about seven years after that. Wonderful books, and subsequently, lovely films. Excellent fantasy film making there!

As much as I enjoyed the Harry Potter books, which I read for their Dickensian protagonist in the beginning, the films have lacked some certain something. I think it’s a few small things, that when put together make the films feel less than they could have been.

When I heard that The Hobbit was to be made into a film, I was very, very happy. That the book would be made into two films was even better! I’ve learned recently that the director originally announced for the film has stepped down. Guillermo del Toro has stated that the length of the project, which has expanded greatly during pre-production, has forced him to hand the project over to another director.

I thought that del Toro would do a wonderful job with the film, and so far the front running contenders, according to internet gossip, are Alfonso Cuarón and Peter Jackson again. I’m not sure which I would prefer to direct, but nonetheless I’m highly anticipating this film.