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By now most of you all have heard the news that Guillermo Del Toro bowed out of The Hobbit. He mentioned that the main reason for doing so was that the project was basically in a state of limbo and that other committments had made it impossible for him to direct the two-part Hobbit project. Del Toro is most famous for directing The Hellboy films as well as Pan’s Labyrinth.  Unfortunately for him, he had moved his family to New Zealand two years ago to get this project off the ground. Thus, we can imagine how frustrated he must have been to actually decide to leave The Hobbit. Well, with this behind us many blogs and movie websites have started asking the questions of who will actually direct The Hobbit.  Before those questions and discussions go any further, I beg you all to stop.

There is only person alive who should be directing these movies, and his name is Peter Jackson. Jackson directed all three Lord of The Rings movies and lets just say he did a rather stellar job.  Rather than questioning who should direct the now director-less ‘Hobbit’, we should be questioning why Jackson wasn’t at the helm from the very beginning.  I don’t want to take anything away from Del Toro.  I’m sure he would have given a great performance, and he even mentioned that since he was a kid that he dreamed of bringing The Hobbit to the big screen…so we know the passion is there. But seriously, lets just take a step back here. How could Jackson not direct this movie?

Reasons why Jackson might not have originally been put in the director chair could be due to the beef he has with New Line management or just that he knows the full extent of making this film the right way requires A LOT of time and energy: time and energy that he doesn’t want to give.  I can only imagine how much filming 18 months straight and editing for endless hours can take out of somebody.  It basically turned Jackson into a Hobbit lookalike.   Today, you can barely recognize the man who accepted the Best Director award in 2004 for Return of the King.  Also, previous committments to The Lovely Bones kept Jackson from doing anything LOTR related. Perhaps he planned for The Hobbit to be underway during the months he was doing The Lovely Bones. I guess he doesn’t have to worry about that anymore. Looking at his IMDB homepage, Jackson has no current directorial committments.

At this point, Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson are almost synomous. Jackson knows this. Heck, we all know this.  Now with Del Toro gone, The Hobbit project has never been more in a state flux. For years we have heard rumors of certain LOTR actors returning to star in The Hobbit. These rumors fueled an entire underbelly of LOTR fantatics blogging about when The Hobbit would finally get made.  The one good thing we can take away from this is that the news of Del Toro leaving has taken the project from the rumor mill to the Hollywood lime light.  This is the perfect opportunity for Jackson to suck it up and announce that he will be running the show once again.

There are plenty of talented directors that could do a good job with The Hobbit (i.e. Neil Blomkamp and JJ Abrams just to name a few). However, there is only 1 man who could do this project justice. I know it, you it, and he knows it. It won’t be before long that Jackson finally announces what we will have wanted from the very beginning. 

What do you think?

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