Más que una noticia es una especulación fomentada por el mismo Guillermo ante las preguntas del reportero:

La noticia está en inglés, por lo que si alguien lo puede traducir al Castellano sería genial, pero más o menos viene a decir que Guillermo del Toro le encantaría hacer la/s película/sdel Hobbit para el formato Imax 3D, pero como son cuatro las personas que lo tienen que decidir, él lo propondrá más adelante, y tratará de convencer a los demás. Que se haga o no no está en su mano, pero el está claramente a favor.

El artículo en el siguiente enlace:
 http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/10/20/the-hobbit-in-3d-and-imax-guillermo-del-toro-leaves-open-the-possibility/

Y un copy/paste del mismo:
Amidst all the rumors surrounding “The Hobbit,” the most prevalent seems to be that the two-part opus is already slated for the 3D and IMAX treatment. (Shhh! Don’t tell Roger Ebert.)

Could our next trip to Middle Earth, then, actually bring us, you know, into Middle Earth?

Maybe, maybe not, director Guillermo Del Toro told MTV News.

“IMAX is a fantastic medium. I am a shareholder. I love IMAX. I remember seeing ‘Polar Express,’ and then seeing ‘Polar Express’ in 3D and IMAX and having my life completely transformed,” he enthused, excitedly discussing the format’s immersive capabilities. “I think it would be a worthy discussion. But it hasn’t arrived.

“I think that we are experienced enough, I guess would be the term, to know that we should not daydream about [things like that] when we write the screenplay,” he said of whether or not he was even flirting with 3D or IMAX as possibilities. “Right now what we have is, you don’t have two filmmakers and two screenplay writers – you have four screenplay writers. We’ll be talking about 3D, on IMAX – but [not] right now.”