The Homage: Just look at that statue in the mountain range. If we didn’t know better, we’d think it was a deleted scene from the trilogy.
 
Lesson For del Toro: He’s in New Zealand, so we want him to take full advantage and produce films that celebrate everything that’s awesome about Peter Jackson’s work.

And NZ was a big part of that - go on, Guillermo, make Murray from Flight Of The Conchords smile with how well you show off the country...