{"id":11310,"date":"2011-01-10T23:56:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T04:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=11310"},"modified":"2011-01-10T23:56:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T04:56:21","slug":"serkis-and-mckellen-confirmed-for-hobbit-lee-and-holmes-in-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/10\/serkis-and-mckellen-confirmed-for-hobbit-lee-and-holmes-in-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Serkis And McKellen Confirmed For HOBBIT, Lee And Holmes In Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Andy Serkis and Ian McKellen have been confirmed as reprising their Lord Of The Rings<\/strong> roles for Peter Jackson’s two-part The Hobbit<\/strong>. Serkis will once again perform the role of Gollum through motion capture driven computer animation, while McKellan will once again be playing the wizard Gandalf.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Christopher Lee and Ian Holmes are in talks to return to Middle Earth, reprising their Lord Of The Rings<\/strong> roles of the evil wizard Saurman and an older Bilbo Baggins respectively. The news follows last Friday’s news<\/a> that Elijah Wood was set to reprise his role of Frodo Baggins for the film. Holmes’s inclusions confirms that there will probably be a framing sequence where Frodo hears the story from his uncle Bilbo.<\/p>\n

Previously, Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving have been confirmed as participating in the project which begins filming next month in New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy Serkis and Ian McKellen have been confirmed as reprising their Lord Of The Rings roles for Peter Jackson’s two-part The Hobbit. Serkis will once again perform the role of Gollum through motion capture driven [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2544,3077,1594,1816],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-andy-serkis","9":"tag-ian-mckellen","10":"tag-peter-jackson","11":"tag-the-hobbit"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t