New Line, Warner Bros. Pictures and MGM have officially announced in a press release the casting of the various dwarf characters in their upcoming film adaptation of "The Hobbit" which Peter Jackson is set to direct. Firstly the release (via TheOneRing) finally confirms that UK "The Office" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" star Martin Freeman is set to play Bilbo Baggins.
(from L to R): Richard Armitage, Aidan Turner, Rob Kazinsky
Three British TV hunks will be joining him. Tall dark and brooding Richard Armitage, best known for playing Sir Guy of Gisborne in the BBC's recent "Robin Hood" series and currently starring as Lucas North in the acclaimed MI5-set spy series "Spooks", has been cast as Thorin Oakenshield.
In the film Oakenshield is the leader of the Company of Dwarves which sets off to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from a thieving dragon. Two members of...
(from L to R): Richard Armitage, Aidan Turner, Rob Kazinsky
Three British TV hunks will be joining him. Tall dark and brooding Richard Armitage, best known for playing Sir Guy of Gisborne in the BBC's recent "Robin Hood" series and currently starring as Lucas North in the acclaimed MI5-set spy series "Spooks", has been cast as Thorin Oakenshield.
In the film Oakenshield is the leader of the Company of Dwarves which sets off to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from a thieving dragon. Two members of...
- 10/22/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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