Guillermo del Toro has insisted that his interpretation of Tolkein's classic, THE HOBBIT, and the second "bridge" movie will in fact be one continuous story in the vein of Tolkein's vision of "The Lord of the Rings".

Rather than two separate stories, del Toro, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson and Phillippa Boyens have now reached a point where it is just "the story" - told in two parts.

“The reality is that we stopped talking the first movie and second movie, and we just started taking about the movie - the two episodes, or two parts, as if they were a single piece of narrative.”

“We don’t even call it the bridge movie, we just call it ‘The Movie.’ And this is great. When we found what reverberated, and we found it in one of our virtual meetings - we understood. It’s a movie.”

The "virtual meetings" del Toro mentions, involved video conferences between the filmmakers that sometimes spanned several days!

"We each get big, big homework to do and then we come back. And then we exchange that homework and then we have input from that," said the filmmaker.

“We all agree that if we do our job right, it should all feel like a continuous journey. That’s what we’re striving for,” Del Toro said. “You should see a movie that’s five pictures long. If we do our job right, you put in ‘The Hobbit’ and you wind up watching the entire Pentology!”

Sounds good to me - roll camera!

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