Who should be in The Hobbit?

Sir Ian McKellan has disclosed that The Hobbit will commence filming in July with the second film to film directly afterwarRAB. Casting is underway on both side sof the Atlantic.

I'm somewhat surprised the filming is this near. PJ is heavily involved in the Tintin films at the moments and even though he's only producing the new Middle Earth films I can't see him keeping away from the action.

In any case, I'm really excited now as I'm off to NZ at the end of the year. I wonder how close to the Hobbiton set I'll be able to get?
 
He's probably multi-tasking. The sets for the Hobbit village have been built (re-built) already and I read an article somewhere recently that Jackson was back in New Zealand doing whatever. Not sure how far Tin Tin is into production.

I am looking forward to these two films more than any others-i'm ignoring the fact that I felt the same way about the Star Wars prequels and look how that turned out.

The Hobbit is an amazing book so they cant go wrong, can they?
 
I'd love them to keep it as children's book. It's supposed to be a story that Bilbo has written based on his adventure which he called, 'There and Back Again'. I'd start off with maybe Sam reading to a group of Hobbit children or his own little Goldielocks.

But I reckon it will be probably be dark, epic and padded out with events that are mentioned in Unfinished Tales and Gandalf's narrative to Frodo about the ring.
 
Despite no real news over the timetable for getting this film made (all tied up with the problems with MGM) or who will direct, there is some interesting casting news.

Sylvester McCoy (Dr Who) is in negotiations for a major role. He was considered for thr ;part of Bilbo in the LotR films but lost out to Ian Holme. Now he is being cast as 'a wizard' in The Hobbit. With McKellan sure to return as Gandalf that only leaves Radagast the Brown from the original story. Reports are that in the movie Radagast has a much bigger role than in the book. Not sure what I think about this.
 
Some more casting news has surfaced.

James Nesbitt has been offered a role (not disclosed what but I'm thinking a one of the dwarfs).
David Tennant and Micheal Fassbender are being 'pursued' - what ever that means. Tennant has to be the King of the Elves I would say. The question is will the Elves be as they were written in The Hobbit or as they are in LotR, which is totally different?

Also although there's no official owrd it looks almost certain that Martin Freeman has got the part of Bilbo.
 
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