Open Forum Friday: Who Should Direct The Hobbit?

Posted by Sean on June 1st, 2007   Filed under: Books/Comics, Movies, Open Forum Friday

Here’s a fun little poll question to cap off the week here on Film Junk. A couple of weeks ago Ain’t It Cool News ran a post that supposedly contained the short list of directors being considered to take on MGM’s adaptation of The Hobbit. On this list were the following names: Stephen Sommers (The Mummy), Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events), Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) and yes… Michael Bay (Transformers).

Add this to the previous rumours of Sam Raimi and Peter Weir, and you’ve got a lot of interesting names in the mix. I don’t know how feasible any of them would be, but I thought it would make for an interesting and lively debate. I added a few names of my own and set up a poll below… go on and let us know who you think is the right man for the job! Give us your thoughts here on Open Forum Friday.

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Comments (5)

  1. I think Weir had been working on the Tolkien stuff years ago and when that fell through he made Excalibur. My votes for him to bring something different but still good to The Hobbit.

    Posted by Ian on June 1st, 2007

  2. I went for the obvious choice of Peter Jackson but there’s probably not a chance in hell that he’ll ever direct the Hobbit. Aside from Jackson, it would interesting to see Alfonso Cuarón or Guillermo del Toro at the helm and I would hate to see any of the other directors on this poll get the job (except Weir, who I don’t have an opinion on).

    Posted by Nuno on June 1st, 2007

  3. So according to that list, Raimi is no longer in the running? That is if he ever really was in the first place?

    Posted by Rian on June 1st, 2007

  4. Steven Spielberg. But if not that I’m going with his own favorite director, Michael Bay.

    Posted by Henrik on June 1st, 2007

  5. The impression I get about the Sam Raimi thing is that he was never really in the running, and MGM might have just thrown his name out when they first announced Peter Jackson wouldn’t be doing it because they needed something that would temporarily appease the fanboys.

    Posted by Sean on June 1st, 2007

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