As any nerd worthy of his Spock ears surely knows by now, Pan’s Labyrinth helmsman Gigantor Del Taco Guillermo Del Toro has officially been named as the director for the J.R.R.R. Tolkein pre-LOTR magic-midget tale The Hobbit, as well as an as-of-yet unnamed sequel. Which means the Mexican auteur and his entire family (which is probably like 5,000 people, seeing as he’s Mexican and all) moves to New Zealand where’ll he be spending the next FOUR years working on the aforementioned guaranteed monster-hits (of course he could get ‘em done in a year and a half, but he’s Mexican so he’s gonna take his sweet-ass time).

Lord of the Rings fanboy nerdsite The One Ring scored an interview with Del Toro, and with regard to the aforementioned sequel Del Toro had THIS to say:

“You know, I traveled to New Zealand just a little while ago, and one of the main reasons for going was to sit down and talk about the second film. ‘The Hobbit’, the book, is really one self-contained film, so for the second movie we sat down and worked it out. When we did this we got really excited because this second film is not a ‘tag on’, it’s not ‘filler’, it’s an integral part of telling the story of those 50 years of history lost in the narrative. There will be certain things that we will see from the first movie but from a different point of view, but it will feel like a volume, in the 5 volumes of the entire story. It will not feel like a bridge, I’ve been hearing it called ‘a bridge film’, it’s not, it’s an integral chapter of the story, and I think we’re all on the same page.”

The interview can be read in its entirety here. Of course everything in it is probably lies, since Del Toro’s a Mexican, and he probably stole the interviewer’s watch. Because he’s Mexican. Oh, and dig how he took his sombrero and bandoleers off for the photo shoot. Yeah, you’re not fooling anyone, “Del Toro” (which is Mexican for “I steal your watches and rape the white womens!”).

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