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"Guillermo del Toro has claimed that he is not feeling any pressure working on highly-anticipated Lord Of The Rings prequel The Hobbit. The Hellboy director told Radio 5 Live&amp;#039;s Simon Mayo that he isn&amp;#039;t worried about matching the critical and commercial successor of Peter Jackson&amp;#039;s fantasy trilogy. He said: &amp;quot;Frankly no. If I live the experience like that I would go insane. I don&amp;#039;t know if there&amp;#039;s a compartment in my brain that just doesn&amp;#039;t register those things. I feel an enormous responsibility but not to the results, either by Oscars or box office.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;I have an enormous responsibility to a book I adore and to a legacy of a world. Creatively I feel very responsible and very daunted, but honoured, doing this.&amp;quot; Del Toro admitted that preparing the epic two-movie adaptation of JRR Tolkien&amp;#039;s novel has been demanding: &amp;quot;I go to work at 9am. We open The Hobbit office 9am to 8pm. We are working on the screenplay [and] designing creatures at WETA. &amp;quot;The first movie, if it stays on schedule, comes out 2011. The second movie 2012, Christmas time.&amp;quot; Last week, it was reported that del Toro is &amp;quot;very close&amp;quot; to announcing the film&amp;#039;s cast. Sir Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and Hugo Weaving are all expected to reprise their Lord Of The Rings roles in The Hobbit. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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