Peter Jackson wants us to stop listening to rumors and listen to him regarding The Hobbit. Here’s what he had to say:

“Nothing has changed as far as I am concerned…You don’t want to believe everything you read on the internet.  We were due to deliver the scripts and be shooting sometime around April and now I think I said in an interview we were shooting in June.  And somehow people are now saying the film is delayed.  As far as I am aware, they are not delayed at all.  I am not even sure when we are going to start shooting…we are delivering the scripts just after Christmas they’ll be finished and we’ll be shooting as soon as we possibly can.”

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IGN talked to Jackson about the many rumors around the casting of Bilbo Baggins, played in the Lord of the Rings films by Ian Holm. The big names who’ve been bandied about in relation to the character include Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Martin Freeman and David Tennant. Some of those are reasonable, some (like Radcliffe) are fairly ludicrous. Jackson says that some were not under consideration, but refused to specify which, so as not to lend additional weight to names he didn’t cross off the list.

But he did mention that casting directors are auditioning unknowns for Bilbo as well. Which isn’t really out of the blue, and shouldn’t be taken to mean that the character will necessarily be played by an unknown.

I think the possibility of an unknown playing Bilbo is actually pretty high. Jackson did cast an unknown for the lead in his current film The Lovely Bones. I’m not against the idea, I just hope things keep moving forward without any other hang-ups.

Source: /Film

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