Neill Blomkamp, the director of the excellent District 9, is being tipped to direct the big screen version of The Hobbit after the film’s original director Guillermo Del Toro jumped ship after working on the film for over two years.
Read more at TheOneRing.net, which also confirms that despite not having a director, work on the movie is still pushing head.
Despite not having a named director, the production is moving forward as if all were well and that info is oozing out from every crack everywhere. I am getting contacted by a lot of people involved in the casting process and it is in full swing. Auditions and all the surrounding busy work is happening with the same team that worked on LOTR.
