McKellen to reprise Gandalf role in "Hobbit"
Jack London (Reuters) - Brits role player Ian McKellen will recapitulate the purpose of the magician Gandalf in the upcoming movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit", he told a film powder store.
The 68-year-old star played the portion in the tremendously successful "Lord of the Rings" trilogy directed by Simon Peter Andrew Jackson. Mexican film maker Guillermo del Toro has been named to orchestrate iI films based on "The Hobbit".
"Yes, it's true," McKellen told Empire magazine.
"I spoke to Guillermo in the real room that Saint Peter Mahalia Jackson offered me the office and he confirmed that I would be reprising the office. Plainly, it's non a part that you move around knock down, I loved performing Gandalf."
Del Toro, whose credits include "Pan's Labyrinth", testament move to Fresh Zealand for the next quaternion age to work on both "Hobbit" films with executive producer Jackson, according to Newly Transmission line Movie theatre and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.
The studios have said that motion-picture photography will begin in 2009, with tentative release dates set of 2010 for the first celluloid and 2011 for the sequel.
(Committal to writing by Microphone Collett-White, editing by Alice Paul Casciato)
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