Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating today, May 25th, including:

1939 – Ian McKellen, actor
1944 – Frank Oz, puppeteer
1947 – Karen Valentine, actress
1963 – Mike Myers, actor
1969 – Anne Heche, actress
1969 – Stacy London, fashion TV personality
1970 – Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, actresses
1970 – Jamie Kennedy, actor
1973 – Molly Sims, actress
1975 – Lauryn Hill, singer
1976 – Cillian Murphy, actor

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Here’s an interesting new shot of Ian McKellen wearing 3D glasses from the set of the upcoming mega-prequel The Hobbit.

Not a sight one would have imagined seeing, probably the last time you’ll see it too. Talk about a contrasting image, Middle Earth meets the modern age. It’s great that Ian McKellen is onboard for a random photo-op like this.

Source: Coming Soon

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Johnathan Rhys-Davies doesn’t want to be in The Hobbit films, much to the dismay of Lord of the Rings fans everywhere.

Of course his character from Lord of the Rings, Gimli, doesn’t appear since this movie is set before he was born. But most had hoped, even assumed, that he’d be brought in to play Gimli’s father who does figure prominently into The Hobbit story. Unfortunately, Rhy-Davies just isn’t interested. He says, “I’ve already been asked and to be honest with you, I wouldn’t. I have already completely ruled it out. There’s a sentimental part of me that would love to be involved again. Really I am not sure my face can take that sort of punishment any more.”

If you’ve watched any of the behind the scenes material from Lord of the Rings you know what a struggle it was for John just to make it through filming on the first trilogy. His makeup was brutal and caused an allergic reaction. He had trouble breathing inside his costume and let’s face it, he’s not getting younger. Just doing Lord of the Rings was a struggle for him, a struggle which he embraced and an experience which he loved, but now that he’s even older and presumably even more fragile it’s easy to understand why he might be unable to take the punishment of putting back on his dwarf costume.

It’s a lot of punishment to go through for the part, and it’s not like he needs it for his career. Its unfortunate, but hey there are other actors out there who can play this part and the movies are still going to be great.

Source: Cinema Blend

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Good news for fans of The Lord of the Rings films, Ian McKellan has confirmed that he’ll be happy to return for The Hobbit films as Gandalf the Grey.

The first thing he said might come as a shock: “I don’t want to play Gandalf again.” But calm down– what he means is that he doesn’t want to play any more Gandalf-like characters, which means that Michael Gambon can hang on to that role as Dumbledore. McKellen continued, “But I played the best wizard, and I’m happy to revisit him, which I shall do in The Hobbit with Guillermo del Toro.”

As for returning as Gandalf the Grey rather than The White, McKellen says he’s thrilled. “Grey Gandalf is my favorite. Peter Jackson’s too, we always preferred Gandalf the Grey. Peter liked him because he got down and dirty. He slept in the hedgerows; he was closer to the earth and not quite so spiritual. He’s also funnier — he’s got more variety to him. We thought there was more scope in that Gandalf.”

I’m glad he’s all about it, I can’t imagine anyone else playing the iconic wizard. Those two films are going to be so huge when they finally hit the big screens in a couple of years. I’m looking forward to them, but there’s not too much reason to get excited yet. I’ll keep you posted.

Source: Cinema Blend

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Gavin Hood, who directed X-Men Origins: Wolverine wants to direct X-Men Origins: Magneto.

…against the wishes of people who paid to watch X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Hood has expressed interest in the next installment of the series, X-Men Origins: Magneto. Talking to MTV, Hood said, “Absolutely, if I was asked I’d take an interest.” He continued, “But the truth is I haven’t been asked, and I think that the studio right now is waiting to see how we do with the [X-Men Origins: Wolverine] DVDs, and who knows where we’ll all be if and when a [Wolverine 2] script is ready.” He goes on to talk about the psychological complexity of Magneto as a character.

I’m going to guess that the studio hasn’t asked him to jump on board for a reason. For one, they’ve got comic movie god, David Goyer on deck ready to take over the project. For those who have forgotten, Goyer was half responsible for the scripts of both Batman Beginsand The Dark Knight.

I really hope they don’t give it to Hood, I thought Wolverine was severely lacking. Magneto needs a better director attached, here’s hoping it’s better than the last film.

Source: Cinema Blend

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