A while ago, I posted about this movie in my "Development Hell" thread. Looks like they're finally starting to get the cast together. Arl Eamon is going to play Dwalin, and Spock is allegedly going to be the voice of Smaug. As of right now, the page also says that Peter Jackson is going to direct these two films, as well, although I had heard that he'd only intended to produce them before. So that's cool.
The presence of certain characters who weren't present in the Hobbit, however-Frodo, Frodo's father Drogo, and Legolas in particular-have me raising my eyebrows a bit, but hopefully there's a good excuse for them to be there, and not a lame one. Like in FotR, when Arwen carried Frodo to Rivendell like baggage, instead of him practically making it there himself with only the aid of the horse, thus wussifying him a bit. I suppose I don't mind if these characters are there or if they explore other parts of the story that weren't in the actual Hobbit book, so long as it's not to the detriment of the characters who appeared in the book, and the tone of the Hobbit isn't totally changed to be more dark and epic, as the Narnia movies have tried to do. Kinda excited that Beorn is actually going to be in this after Tom Bombadill wasn't in LotR, and I wonder how this Richard Armitage guy is going to be as Thorin (him and Balin are a couple of my favorite characters from literature.)
Excited for this. Definitely going to theaters in '12. Hope it isn't pushed back! Anyhoo...
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