Actor Matthew Goode, known as Ozymandias in Watchmen, has let slip that he auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit!

But just before we met, he’d auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro’s two-part film of The Hobbit. As he is the first to admit, he’s not an obvious [...]

Previously, Jackson and Del Toro had confirmed that The Hobbit would have a December 2011 release date, but unfortunately Variety has informed that Alan Horn “won’t predict when the first of the two ‘Hobbit’ films will be out, but says the most probable scenario would be a release in the fourth quarter of 2012.”
The delays [...]

The tabloid The Sun has informed recently that actor Tobey Maguire (Spiderman) is rumored to play the Bilbo Baggins role in The Hobbit. The rumours have been doing the rounds for about 1 month, indicating that both producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo Del Toro have been chasing Maguire:
Everyone is over the moon. Tobey is [...]

From Aintitcool:
This is a news item I’d love to proclaim with all-out certainty, but my tried and trusted source(s) aren’t sure if this is a total lock, or whether it’s just someone they’re seriously interested in. Either way, producers of THE HOBBIT have begun looking at casting for the dwarves (dwarfs?), and one name has [...]

Lord Of The Rings star Christopher Lee (Saruman)  has spoken to IGN about The Hobbit.
IGN: Will you be reprising your role as Saruman in The Hobbit or the follow-up film that links it to Lord of the Rings?
Lee: I’ve heard Ian McKellen has agreed to play Gandalf again in The Hobbit. But my character doesn’t [...]

Actor Dominic Monaghan, who played Meriadoc Brandybuck in the The Lord of the Rings films, spoke with MTV about the upcoming two Hobbit films while doing publicity for his new movie I Sell the Dead, which premiered today at the Sundance Film Festival. Interestingly, he talked about some possible cast returns to his hobbit role, since the creative team behind [...]