Director Guillermo del Toro ramps up expectations in an online chat with fans over the weekend in which he reveals that the shooting for his two-part adaptation of The Hobbit will begin in 2010 and will involve an attempt to chart new territory in creature design. The focus, he says, will be on the Goblin Kingdom, the dragon Smaug, and the Spiders of Mirkwood, with the goal of "pushing them to the edge of technology where we will fuse animatronics and CGI into a seamless new art form in creating creatures." Plans are to work with past collaborators from Pan's Labyrinth to Hellboy II to "create and expand a massive universe and be as immersive as the [Lord of the Rings] trilogy was."