Del Toro Quits 'The Hobbit'

[Aiwendil]

Originally Posted by Mr. Underhill

I was excited to see Del Toro's darker, more fantastic sensibility in The Hobbit.

So was I. I was particularly looking forward to seeing how his style would interact with Jackson's hyper-realistic approach; collaborations between people with divergent aesthetic sensibilities sometimes result in something new and wonderful and sometimes in utter rubbish, but they're almost always interesting.

Originally Posted by Son of Numenor

A name that pops to my head is Alfonso Cuaron.

An interesting idea. I have to say, though, that I was not terribly impressed with the direction in Azkaban. It struck me as over the top in a lot of little ways - for instance, I thought the whole Knight Bus sequence was rather over-done.