Monday, June 30, 2008

And in other cinema news

According to his page on the Internet Movie Database, Scottish actor James McAvoy is set to play Bilbo Baggins in the screen adaptation of The Hobbit to be directed by Guillermo del Toro. Anyone heard anything more concrete on this?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

He denied it in The Guardian a couple of weeks ago
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2285488,00.html?gusrc=gpd

richardwatts said...

Oh drat. That would have been a nice piece of casting. Thanks for the update, Anonymous.