Creative Excitement

To all those that love good translations of fantasy to the large or small screen, two links:

The first is to an interview with Guillermo del Toro about the Hobbit:

http://www.totalfilm.com/features/guillermo-del-toro-on-making-the-hobbit/

As a director, del Toro is excellent and has made some really outstanding films (Hellboy 1&2, Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone....) and teamed up with Peter Jackson producing. It's going to be great.

The second is to the current casting for George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire adaptation from HBO, due in 2010.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/

This a majestic story of love, power, betrayal and lust. If HBO can make it with the same love and detail they put into Sopranos or Rome, it will be one to remember.