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Weaving to return for 'Hobbit'

By Adnan Tezer Jun 15, 2009, 20:09 GMT

Director Guillermo del Toro confirmed in a recent BBC interview that Hugo Weaving will reprise his role of Elrond from “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy in the highly anticipated “Hobbit” films.

According to The Moving Picture, Weaving will be joined by his Rings trilogy co-stars Andy Serkis and Ian McKellen, who are back as Gollum and Gandalf.

“The Hobbit”, written by Tolkien for his children years before the Rings trilogy, follows a young Bilbo Baggins, who finds his comfortable life turned upside down when the wizard Gandalf takes him on a journey for a treasure that involves trolls, humans, Gollum and his ring of invisibility and a dragon named Smaug.

Del Toro and Peter Jackson along with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, both of whom collaborated with Jackson on the Rings trilogy, wrote the screenplay.

Jackson and Walsh are also producing the project, which will be split into two films.

The films will be shot simultaneously, with principal photography set to start next year.

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