Peter Jackson tells how much of Del Toro's vision is left in The Hobbit

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I found this interesting...

Originally Posted by PJ

I looked at his designs when he took over and a lot of his designs are very Guillermo . . . it was very much stuff that you would recognize from Pan's Labyrinth or Hellboy. It was his artistic vision and I couldn't make that movie. I looked at his designs and I said the only person who can make a Guillermo Del Toro movie is Guillermo. It shouldn't be me. I can't put my head into somebody else's idea — I have to generate it from the beginning. So really I redesigned the film pretty much.

Link to article with video here

So what GdT was trying to do was something altogether different than the PJ version of ME. Although I can't really blame PJ for making it his own way it is a shame we couldn't see an alternative interpretation, for ill (unlike many others here Pan's Labyrinth didn't leave me with much of an impression) or good.

And like someone says in the commentators field. Couldn't someone please leak some of the GdT material to the internet!?