Movie News - "We've Agreed On Our Choice For Bilbo"

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Have Guillermo Del Toro and Peter Jackson Found Bilbo Baggins?
Published 5/28/2008 by Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical
... spoke to Empire and revealed a few more Hobbit details. We can all breathe a bit easier because according to the director, it will be "at least a year before we announce any casting." So, this may be the last story you read on The Hobbit for quite awhile. ...

Rumor Watch: James McAvoy as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit?
Published 5/29/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... last week that he still has plans to utilize Ian Holm “in some fashion for sure” and that “the difficulty of the role will be better assessed after” the screenplays are completed. del Toro told Empire Magazine last week: ...

McAvoy To Get His Baggins On?
Published 5/29/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (JA) at my new plaid pants
... The rumormongering has been going at it for weeks (months... years, really) as to whom might be cast as the young Bilbo Baggins in the film version of The Hobbit. Del Toro and Jackson both have said that we won't hear anything until next year, but I found the following baseless rumor better than some of the others. ...

Unexpected Casting: James McAvoy as Bilbo Baggins?
Published 5/29/2008 by Kirsten Anderson at At The Movies - Film News and Reviews
... inclusion of Daniel Radcliffe and Jack Black makes it all sound a little crazy. It’s like they picked names from the movie actor hat and just tossed them out there. (But just imagine if all three really were in the running. Wouldn’t you love to see the screen tests? What would you get from the same scene read by McAvoy, Radcliffe, and Black? Those three couldn’t say hello with the same intent.) Here’s more from del Toro on the subject, as told to Empire: “We are writing based on [Ian Holm’s performance], but ...