Peter Jackson, Del Toro Writing Hobbit

This is huge news. Peter Jackson and Del Toro will be writing the upcoming Hobbit films. There are two of them in case you forgot. Yahoo reports that Guillermo Del Toro will direct and write and Peter Jackson will also write;

Del Toro (”Hellboy,” “Pan’s Labyrinth”), who is directing the movies, will team with the “Lord of the Rings” filmmaker and “Hobbit” executive producer Jackson to adapt the J.R.R. Tolkien book and write its follow-up. Also joining them in the writers’ room are Frank Walsh and Philippa Boyens, both of whom collaborated with Jackson on the “Rings” trilogy.

This is a great team and huge news for us fans!