No Hobbit Surprises at Comic-Con This Year but Tennant, McAvoy and Radcliffe are on Short list
Apparently there have been rumors that have been running rampant around the internet that Peter Jackson will be announcing Bilbo Baggins casting news for The Hobbit at this year’s Comic-Con but it seems that won’t be the case.
Empire magazine got some things straight from the man himself as he spoke to them about the rumor of a Bilbo casting announcement at Comic-Con.
“No, we won’t be announcing Bilbo for a little while,” he said when we asked about a Comic-Con announcement. “We’re starting to think about casting, but we’re knee-deep in the script right now. And when we do go to actors, they’re probably going to ask to see a script, so we’re powering ahead with getting the first draft done.”
Another note regarding the casting of Bilbo pegs a short list consisting of Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy and David Tennant all in the running for the role.
The site also asked him what his next directorial plans are after The Lovely Bones.
“I haven’t yet decided what I’ll be directing after that. At the moment we’re concentrating on writing a couple of little movies with Guillermo [Del Toro]. A couple of small films! (Laughs) And that’s going to take us another few months of writing to do. But we are developing a couple of projects which are potentially films that I’d direct for next year. Temeraire is still on the cards. But those are really taking a second place at the moment…”
Tenemaire is an adaptation of Naomi Novik’s fantasy novel series that revolves around English and French armies fighting in the Napoleonic wars with dragons.
