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Remains to be seen, but I notice a definite (as in, total) lack of the "scoop" being picked up elsewhere. If it had substance, wouldn't everyone be leaping onto the wagon? Whereas not even AICN is nibbling. So far.
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Having just watched district 9 again, I think this is a terrrific film, whether he has the right sensibility for the hobbit is another question
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McKellen confirms filming on HOBBIT aiming to start in January next year...

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/dis ... s_Gandalf/


also, further news on the MGM situation from Bloomberg
MGM creditors will be asked to approve a restructuring and pre-packaged bankruptcy plan for the studio within the next week or two, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

Under the plan, MGM would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after obtaining creditor approval, with the goal of emerging from court protection by the end of the year, said one of the people, who asked not to be named because the details aren’t public.
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Well the DragonCon 2010 report is finally up on TORn...


Most of it is news we've already read about on there, but this is the snippet that may either alarm or excite fans...
We also tantalized the attending fans by revealing that a very good source had told us that, as the script CURRENTLY stands, (so things could change), a very popular but unexpected cast member from the original trilogy will make an appearance in The Hobbit. That’s all we can tell you on that for now…
Popular would of course be Legolas...but hardly unexpected, surely odds-on favourite for a possible cameo???
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Well, I could see that. Mirkwood is his realm, of course.
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Arwen.
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<stomps foot> Legolas!
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Legowen. Argolas!
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:rofl: That might be a good compromise.
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Perhaps we get a chance to see Arwen's dubious romantic past, and why her dad is so grumpy about her. It all fits; the guy who ends up falling in love with her was not, after all, around to hear rumors from the Elf party circuit five hundred years earlier. It's as if he was made to solve her problem.
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Arwen and Legolas!
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I suppose we can discount a 10-year-old Aragorn, since Viggo was 87 in the Trilogy... ;)
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Ah, but removing the 17 year gap would make him 27 ;)
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Probably still too young for Viggo to play him, though (which would be only reason to have Aragorn there).

It could conceivably be Ian Holm, portraying the older Bilbo telling the story of his adventure.
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Or possibly Sean Astin as Mayor Samwise, reading to his children from the Red Book?

(It's most likely Legolas though...)
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Most likely. But it's still fun to speculate about more appealing possibilities.
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The moth.
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:)
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I hope it's not Legolas. Frankly, I thought that as played by Orlando Bloom, he was :ysleepy: and would add no weight or interest. And the girls who squee'd over Bloom in the LotR films have grown up; the current crop that age have never heard of him.

'D rather see the moth.

Sam as a framing character would be cool. Just a glimpse of Sam settled with Rosie and surrounded by kids, reading them a story by the fire. And it's not incompatible with Tolkien; it's not wedging someone into the story to meet a marketing goal. Sam did inherit the Red Book, and finish the story, and I can't imagine he didn't read it to his children, especially the parts about Bilbo's journey.
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I'd vote for Sam! :D :love:
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