Jan 23 2009Double M Working on 'The Hobbit'
I hope you're as into the amazing-yet-predictably-stylized art of Hellboy creator Mike Mignola as much as I am (did you rent Disney's Atlantis just to see his production designs in the special features?) because then you'll be excited that Guillermo del Toro has revealed he'll again be working with the artist on The Hobbit:
With work on “The Hobbit” really starting to move forward, Guillermo del Toro updated MTV News this week with exclusive scripting, casting and pre-production news, including confirmation that “Hellboy” creator Mike Mignola will be coming aboard for early visualization.“We are sketching and designing with Weta’s John Howe, and [Adam Lee],” del Toro offered. “Mike Mignola is coming soon. He’s going to do a stint on the design team.”
Now you'll know what's up when Middle Earth is suddenly filled with floating crowns, statues set amidst showers of falling leaves, blocky shadows of dense blackness, and Nazi zombies.
Trust me, that was a really witty comment if you're intimately familiar with his art.
Reader Comments
1. Ted - January 23, 2009 6:38 PM
I appreciated the joke!
2. brossa - January 23, 2009 6:42 PM
Tentacles, too. Don't forget the tentacles.
3. Jonny - January 23, 2009 7:04 PM
I'm intimately familiar with his art. And by "intimately familiar", I mean that I cut a hole in Hellboy #24 and fucked it.
4. Hal - January 23, 2009 7:27 PM
This is nothing but Win.
5. Elmo - January 23, 2009 7:32 PM
awsome! too bad the finished movie Atlantis didn't look like his designs.. *sigh*
6. Spagett! - January 24, 2009 12:53 AM
i cant fucking wait for these movies i just hope they dont fuck up too much with part 2
7. che-che - January 26, 2009 11:46 AM
my mouth, is salivating. this should be good. should be. hopefully there is a hobbit that gets his face smashed in with a liqour bottle.
@5- i remember the old mans room,. had fish in the tank. and they was 100% mignolal. that was it. and everything did have swirlies on them.
8. todders - January 26, 2009 2:28 PM
Marty McFly?
awesome vid about DUDE WHO GOT TRAMPLED AT WAL-MART:
http://www.digitalfuntown.com/videos/145
9. David - January 28, 2009 10:14 AM
Let's hope Bilbo teams up with Lobster Johnson.
It could happen!
(I always knew Smaug was a Nazi)
10. Hobbit fan - May 5, 2009 10:36 AM
Haha! Nice joke!
11. Jaromir83 - May 27, 2009 3:59 PM
Helboy 2 the movie reminded me more of the Middleearth universe than Hellboy universe. and it was NOT a good movie IMHO.