Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro had an online chat on saturday to answer 20 questions about the up coming Hobbit movie and its sequel known as Film 2.

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The duo are currently in the planning stages of the films and casting and script has not happened, but they did talk a lot about story ideas, concepts, filming locations, and possibly casting.

One of the biggest questions asked was which of the actors from Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy would reprise their roles in The Hobbit movies?

PJ: “… apart from extreme circumstances, we would never recast a character who appeared in the LOTR trilogy. You can read The Hobbit and pretty much see which characters play a part. The unknown facter is Film Two, which we are still developing. If we wished to write one of the LOTR characters into the narrative of Film Two, we would only do that with that actors blessing, and willingess to take part. Otherwise we’d take the writing in another direction.”

I was particularly intrigued by the comments that Jackson made regarding Smaug because we all know who I have been saying its going to be all along. Del Toro said that he’s been thinking of several possibilities for the person to be the voice of Smaug, but probably not Ron Perlman, for whom “he has other plans”. I wonder what this could mean maybe a dwarf or something but I am still gambiling on Smaug right now.

The rest of the conversation leaned towards scheduling, writing staff, and music composition. The only thing that wa partcularly interesting was the Del Toro mentioned a “PG-13″ rating for movie due to it having dark elements to it.

GDT: I hope that Mirkwood can be pretty scary but not graphic, I hope Riddles in the dark has an element of fear and suspense and to be deeply atmospheric but still allow the ingenious, engaging contest to take place. And Smaug should be all shock and awe when he unleashes his anger so, it will be pretty intense but not gorey.

Now the other interesting bit of information was what the Film 2 would look like. We have been talking alot about this concept and have expressed distaste for it but please tell how this is not a “bridge film” ?

GDT: The idea is to find a compelling way to join THE HOBBIT and FELLOWSHIP and enhance the 5 films both visually an in their Cosmology. There’s omissions and material enough in the available, licensed material to attempt this. The agreement is, however, that the second film must be relevant and emotionally strong enough to be brought to life but that we must try and contain the HOBBIT in a single film.

PJ: I’m really looking forward to developing Film Two. It gives us a freedom that we haven’t really had on our Tolkien journey. Some of you may well say that’s a good thing of course! The Hobbit is interesting in how Tolkien created a feeling of dangerous events unfolding, which preoccupy Gandalf. There’s an awful lot of incident that happens during that 60 year gap. At this stage, we’re not imagining a film that literally covers 60 years, like a bio-pic or documentary. We would figure out what happens during that 60 years, and choose one short section of time to drop in and dramatise for the screen. I’m really interested in how it effects The Hobbit - do we show what happens to Gandalg during his trips away? We’ll see. We may well have seeds for Film Two that we’ll subtly sow during The Hobbit.