Some major talent is aligning to get 'Hulk' ready for smashing. Guillermo del Toro, the man behind the 'Hellboy' film franchise and 'Pan's Labyrinth,' and David Eick, executive producer on Syfy's 'Battlestar Galactica,' are in final negotiations to helm the Marvel Comics character's return to the small screen.

According to Deadline Hollywood, del Toro and Eick will work together to break down the story specifics and share a created by credit. If all goes according to plan, Eick will write and del Toro will direct if it fits into his schedule.

The TV series plot will include a retelling of the famous origin story, wherein scientist Bruce Banner is exposed to gamma rays that transform him into the Incredible Hulk when angry.

Guillermo del Toro -- the writer/director behind Oscar-winner 'Pan's Labyrinth' -- gave Craig Ferguson some scoop on his latest project, an adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's horror 'At the Mountains of Madness.'

On 'The Late Late Show' (weeknights, 12:37AM ET on CBS), del Toro said, "We're creating creatures and monsters unlike anything you've ever seen." The director added that even Dennis Muren (a special effects master at George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic) told him, "'Do you realize nobody has ever seen monsters like this, ever?'" It was a high compliment for the self-described "fat geek."

"You're so hard on yourself!" countered Ferguson. "You do the wonderful movies, you win the Oscars, you do the books [like 'The Fall'] about proper vampires, and then you start giving yourself a hard time ... Will the monsters make it better, Guillermo?" Let's hope so. Though del Toro then admitted getting scared, on rare occasion, amid all this fright-fest material.

Okay, this is strictly in the "rumor" department. In fact, this piece is so unlikely that I hesitate to write it. But, I'm going to anyway. Sci Fi Wire hinted that Doctor Who's David Tennant might be up for the role of Bilbo Baggins in the upcoming two-movie version of The Hobbit, which will be produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Guillermo del Toro.

The logic behind this is that David Tennant will be at Comic Con and the production team of The Hobbit will be at Comic Con. I'll leave it to you to find the gap in that logic.

Now, I love David Tennant as the Doctor, but he's completely inappropriate for Bilbo Baggins. He's too tall. He's too skinny. I'd even say he's too good-looking.

I wouldn't say I'm completely against the concept, but if you're going to cast an actor who played the Doctor as Bilbo Baggins, I recommend Sylvester McCoy.

Guillermo del Toro is a busy guy. Aside from helming the much anticipated The Hobbit prequel films to the blockbuster Lord of the Rings trilogy, he's got so many films on his schedule that he's practically booked through 2017. But what does that have to do with television, you say? Well, Variety wrote this big old long article about the esteemed del Toro, and one of the last topics discussed was the possibility of a third Hellboy movie. The second didn't achieve the success domestically as the first film but has performed well.

What's kind of cool to consider is that buried in all that text is the gem that the studio is possibly considering a TV series for Hellboy to keep him in front of his fanbase until such a film could be made. Creator Mike Mignola has developed tons of stories for Hellboy in the world of comics, and possibly even more for B.P.R.D. (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development).