Peter Jackson has announced this week that they are opening the casting nets to all for all the roles in “The Hobbit”, the prequel to the “Lord Of The Rings” trilogy, except for Ian McKellen as Gandalf. Jackson talks about [...]
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The First Hobbit Script Has Been Completed
Peter Jackson recently sat down for an interview about The Lovely Bones (directed by Jackson and starring Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz), during which - Jackson confirmed that the script for the first Hobbit film had been completed, [...]
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Brian Cox Could Be Playing a Dwarf In THE HOBBIT
According to AICN, the producers of The Hobbit have started casting "dwarves", and their "tried and trusted sources" say that one person of interest that they want to cast is Brian Cox. He is reportedly a major contender for a [...]
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Del Toro Casts Himself in THE HOBBIT and Mortensen May Appear In The Sequel
Del Toro recently spoke with German television, and said that he will be casting himself in The Hobbit as a creature: "...not an important one, just a background guy." Over at The One Ring message boards the story was picked up, prompting [...]
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Guillermo Del Toro Talks About THE HOBBIT and Working On Smaug
Writer/Director Guillermo del Toro has done a pretty good job of keeping a lid on anything to do with “The Hobbit”. He is still in pre-production for “The Hobbit” and doesn’t begin shooting his back-to-back films until late spring 2010. [...]
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McKellen Has Read The Hobbit Script And Loves It!
Ian McKellen received his copy of the first draft of "The Hobbit" in September, and now two months later he shared his thoughts; “As Peter has said, they loved writing Gandalf because they knew who they were writing him for,” [...]
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Viggo Mortensen To Retire From Acting?
Actor Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings, Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, Hidalgo) is considering retiring from acting altogether. All the travel and frenetic promotion schedule that he’s done has taken its toll on Mortensen’s health. In an interview with [...]
Read moreTolkien Trust Settles Lawsuit and ‘The Hobbit’ Keeps Walking
While back in July we showed you pictures of them reconstructing 'The Shire' in preparation of filming and then we told you that 'The Hobbit' may not happen because of a lawsuit brought against New Line and their parent company [...]
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‘Radcliffe’ Says “Thanks But No Thanks” To ‘The Hobbit’
Daniel Radcliffe has insisted that he has no interest in playing the lead character in The Hobbit. The 20-year-old Harry Potter star was rumored (along with James McAvoy and David Tennant) to be in consideration for the role of Bilbo Baggins [...]
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Peter Jackson Dishes On ‘The Hobbit’
Peter Jackson talked with ScifiWire about "The Hobbit" at San Diego's Comic-Con 2009. Below are some sound bytes from the interview. Jackson on hiring Guillermo del Toro to direct the two-part "The Hobbit" movie and why he chose not to direct [...]
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Reconstruction Of ‘The Shire’ Is Underway
They have begun reconstruction on the village where Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee live for the upcoming 'Hobbit' movies. It's pretty cool to see this being constructed again 7 years after The Lord of the Rings - Return [...]
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‘The Hobbit’ May Not Happen
Guillermo del Toro's film version of The Hobbit could be killed off in a pending battle between a Hollywood giant and the family of the book's author, JRR Tolkien. The heirs to the Tolkien estate are suing New Line Cinema, [...]
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