The New "Hobbit" movie has its own website

[Barliman Butterbur]

Yep, here's a website (unofficial) that has all sorts of Hobbit movie news, including who's going to play Bilbo! Also, Viggo Mortensen will reprise his role as Aragorn!

http://the-hobbit-movie.com/

Barley

[chrysophalax]

Great link, Barley!

My question is...Aragorn? Eh? What other changes can we then expect?!?

[Barliman Butterbur]

Great link, Barley!

My question is...Aragorn? Eh? What other changes can we then expect?!?

My recollection of Aragorn in The Hobbit is foggy...was that reference to "the High King at Fornost" Aragorn? Duh...:confused: :o

Barley

[Prince of Cats]

On the site it said the secured him for the second Hobbit movie. So this sounds like the movie where they are going to make up a bunch of stuff

[Sarah]

They are not making up a bunch of stuff. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have signed a contract as producers, along with Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) as director. They've signed for two films. The first one being The Hobbit: or There and Back Again, which will span from the beginning up through the battle of the five armies. The second film will bridge the time gap from the hobbit to The War of the Ring, using information from the appendices and the history of middle earth.

[Prince of Cats]

Ah, OK good to hear :)

[baragund]

Given the film maker's treatment of TTT and ROTK, I wouldn't put it past them to "make up a bunch of stuff", especially in the 2nd movie.

[Sarah]

Which is the reason PJ isn't directing. Although I hope Del Toro doesn't make it darker than it needs to be.

[Gothmog]

I think that he will be able to have enough fun in the Mirkwood section ;)

[HLGStrider]

My arachnophobia is going to have a picnic on my nerves . . .

James McEvoy is actually a very interesting choice if this is true. I haven't seen him in anything besides Narnia, but there is something charming and impish about his looks.
The other choices . . . Harry Potter as Bilbo? Come on . . .
Colin Firth? Who are they kidding? That's like casting Cary Grant in the part. There are reasons some people are type-cast.
I am really scared by the Jack Black idea. I kind of like the guy. He's off beat interesting, atypical of a Hollywood actor, but Bilbo Baggins?


Anyway, I'm set in my ways. I wanted Timothy Dalton as Aragorn, after all. You can't trust me in casting . . . But the guy was my favorite James Bond after Connery . . . and there is something so rugged and dark about him . . .

[Nóm]

I seen James McEvoy in Atonement and Narnia. Based on those films, I don't have any real complaint about the choice if this is true. If he plays it well I expect he can work, even though he looks younger than I picture Bilbo. And he is was fairly attractive in Atonement, but I expect the role had something to do with it, so hopefully this will not be the case for his Bilbo. Because that would just be weird.:confused:

Anyone interested in casting should check out the live chat thread if you haven't yet.

[Sarah]

McEvoy looks like he could be Wood's cousin (to me anyway), so even though Bilbo is Frodo's uncle, it could work. I'm satisfied with the choice, and excited to follow this process.