Director Guillermo del Toro is a total monster on set! (Or at least he will be in 'The Hobbit')

Guillermo del Toro is a world class film director, but apparently what he really wants to do is act…in intriciately designed monster make-up. The latest droplet of news dripping out of the seemingly forever-in-the-making world of The Hobbit (tentatively scheduled for a December 2011 release) is that del Toro has cast himself as an extra. But not just any extra–as a scary anonymous monster lurking in the background with other scary anonymous monsters. This, according to a recent interview on German TV. He elaborated in a recent post over at TheOneRing.net: “I had a hand on the design of the creature and I will personally sculpt the appliances that will be applied on my face and hands. … I will have a line or two and die quickly.” In other Hobbit news, del Toro recently told the BBC that Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Andy Serkis (Gollum) and Hugo Weaving (Elrond) will reprise their roles from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings’ trilogy in his movie. You can find a meaty update on the project over at slashfilm.com.

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LisaMama
Tue 11/10/09 8:31 PM

He’s following in Peter Jackson’s tradition — Jackson had a brief cameo in all of the Lord of the Rings films.

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- Stevex
  Wed 11/11/09 2:51 AM
  
  I hope that Del Toro’s on-screen death is as funny as Jackson’s was in the third Rings movie.
  
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John Budano
Tue 11/10/09 8:54 PM

My guess is that he will be one of the trolls that ends up getting turned to stone by Gandalf. The stone figures were shown in the extended version of LOTR! Coolness!

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kp
Tue 11/10/09 9:54 PM

yea!

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Shane
Wed 11/11/09 8:15 AM

No I bet he’ll be a goblin in the mountains, maybe even the goblin king.

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Ron
Thu 11/12/09 8:58 AM

I doubt he is going to be one of the trolls, they deserve more then 1 or 2 lines before they die. Actually they need more then 1 or 2 lines to make their scene work, same with the Goblin King. He will probably be one of the many goblins that gets suprised by Gandalf in the cave. A big fat goblin most likely, probably for comical relief since it is a bit of a dark scene.

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