Big News:

1. Ian McKellan = Gandalf in Hobbit film (He and Elrond are the only characters that need the same actors for continuity, but aside from that, Ian McKellan was Gandalf.)

2. Hobbit prequels: the Hobbit, then something or another based on the Hobbit / LoR interim period as suggested in the appendices.

3. Guillermo del Toro (of Pan's Labyrinth ( Read more... )