Editorials > Hobbit Script is underway

So, the news is that Guillermo del Toro has started working on the script for The Hobbit. The long awaited prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy has gone through more legal drama than a season of Law & Order, so it's good to hear that work is finally beginning in earnest. Of course, del Toro's exact words were “scripting has started” so that could mean anything from honest-to-God writing, or that the Pan's Labyrinth director has flipped through a Tolkein book while on the john. We'll see.