According to Dark Horizons James McAvoy is the favored choice to play Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit.

Nothing is even near official, but it’s always fun to speculate.

This is the full transcript of the online chat hosted by Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro regarding The Hobbit and the Sequel.

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According to Coming Soon who quotes Variety, in addition to Andy Serkis and Ian McKellan being approached to reprise their roles in the Hobbit and its sequel, Viggo Mortensen has also been approached to reprise his role as Aragorn.

I’m assuming that’s more for the sequel, unless they try to shoe horn him into the Hobbit storyline, perhaps in scenes with Elrond.

WETA has announced that Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Torro will be holding an hour-long online chat on May 25th! It is hoped that fans will register and submit their questions in advance HERE. The top 20 questions will be answered during the chat and then the two will answer live questions as well!

Here it is directly from Peter Jackson himself.

Enjoy!

Directed by Guillermo del Toro, scored by Howard Shore and with Ian McKellan and Andy Serkis reprising their roles as Gandalf and Gollum, this is a good time to be a Middle Earth Fan.

Of course we all want to see Peter Jackson return to Middle Earth,  but del Toro is a phenomenal second choice.

Howard Shore’s score should help maintain a seamless transition as well.

I am intrigued on what this second film will be and from what material it will be culled.  It seems like a box office move, but it will certainly be interesting to see what’s up their sleeves.

Visit the Hobbit page that is newly created. This page will contain all subpages to future reviews of movies and novelizations.

The direct link to the review is:The Annotated Hobbit Novel.