Today at Maker Faire 2008, MacGyver creator (and real life inspiration) Lee David Zlotoff announced he has a big budget MacGyver movie in the planning stages. Zlotoff mentioned he somehow ended up with the movie rights years ago (extremely uncommon), giving him full control over the film. While few specifics were mentioned, and no formal announcement has been made, its extremely promising that the man with the power to make the film is getting the ball rolling.

Hopefully this will be watchable…apart from that transformers kid!

It has finally been confirmed that Guillermo del Toro is to direct “The Hobbit” and its sequel for New Line-MGM. Del Toro is the man behind Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth , he will be moving to New Zealand for the next 4 years to film both films back to back. The sequel will be dealing with the 60-year period between “The Hobbit” and “The Fellowship of the Ring”.

In other “Ring” news, Microsoft have taken on Peter Jackson to help create two new games in the Halo series.

If you like violence, then you might want to check out the trailer for Tokyo Gore Police.  Its from the people who brought us ‘Machine Girl’ and if you remember that trailer (here) then you get a brief idea of how bloody this one is. Jump to Trailer