Posted on 04/30/2008 1:56:53 PM PDT by JenB
Ian McKellen will again take up the robes of Gandalf the Wizard in the cinematic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic "The Hobbit" a British film magazine reported Wednesday.
But McKellen's publicist warned that final arrangements were yet to be made.
"Of course he wants to do it, but nothing's been agreed or signed," Clair Dobbs said.
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Most excellent! Now, will he be able to get Ian Holm to play Bilbo? After all, he would have looked the same at the time of the Hobbit as he did at the beginning of LOTR. Remember Gandalf’s words to Bilbo when he arrived in Hobbiton; “You haven’t aged a day.”
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“My message is simple: If you don’t think Peter did a fabulous job, very likely you won’t think I will. If you think he did, I will do my best to make you proud of me.” Del Toro talking to MTV.
Other news he mentions that Andy Serkis (shown right) returns as Gollum and as we already know but it was nice to get it confirmed, Sir Ian Mckellen will be back as Gandalf. As I’d suggested though, he is worried Sir Ian Holm might be too old for the casting of Bilbo but won’t let on who he has in mind for the part.
Regarding doing the story in 2 parts he says he wants to nail The Hobbit in the first movie and then move into the era where times start to turn dark and Sauron grows in strength. Del Toro calls it a “very interesting period in time” as civil war starts to break out. He and Peter Jackson have outlined the story they want to tell and how they want to tell it but no firm plans as yet.
Good news. McKellan ~owns~ the role as Gandalf. In fact if somebody else were cast that alone would make it distracting.
Good about Serkis too.
I wonder who’ll be Smaug?
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the "new" Dumbledore was McKellan. :-)
Well, there's the kicker ain't it? Richard Harris wasn't around to play Dumbledore. So far, Sir Ian is.
Michael Gambon.
He's good, and I think an okay replacement. But he's not the same as Richard Harris.
It'd be a good role for Michael Moore...
If yer not kidding, yer wrong. But you know that don't you?
Peter Jackson is out of this one, right?
I’m wrong? Dang. I hate it when I do that. No, I weren’t kiddin’. I’ll take yer word for it though.
Being notsomuch a fan of the Potter series I guess I wasn’t paying attention close enough.
Nevermind, then.
:-)
I guess if you’ve seen one old man in a beard... ;~)
I was thinkin’ more along the lines of Sean Connery.
Maybe that’s too recognizable. But it should be a smooth deep voice. James Earl Jones.
No, Jackson is producing.
I hope Jackson can return to form. ‘King Kong’ was an embarrassing disaster.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the "new" Dumbledore was McKellan. :-)
Sorry, but Sir Ian wasn't in the HP movies. I couldn't remember his name earlier, but a quick trip over to IMDB shows that the "replacement" Dumbledore is Michael Gambon.
Mark
Buy or find out if netflix has the special extended dvd edition of "Return of the King". The "voice of Sauron" scene was removed from the theatrical version, but Peter Jackson did film this and put it in that version. Its probably one of the best scenes you never saw in the theaters and I can't understand why it wasn't included. Probably because it was soo dark. Here's a picture of it.
Pan's is good looking anti-Catholic, pro-communist propaganda. The communists are all portrayed as selfless generous people fighting for the greater good. I'll give it credit for portraying one of them as a foreigner (the war involved the soviet union who had troops there and well as native and international fellow travelers). The native Spanish who are Catholic are over the top monsters who kill anyone and anything in their way. How anyone call this movie sophisticated is beyond me. It is dunce simple, Communist good, Christian bad.
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