The Hobbit has had more on again/off agains than I can count. One minute its all systems go, the next its trouble with the studio's finances or shoot dates or some shit. Anyway, one man that seems to think everything is still on track is Andy "Gollum" Serkis. E-News caught up with the English actor at the Tribeca Film Festival for the North American premiere of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, in which he stars as '70s English punk icon Ian Dury..
"It's going to happen," said Serkis of The Hobbit "I think it's due to start shooting in May. It's going be exciting, especially working with [new director] Guillermo del Toro, who's fantastic."
"It's nice to wear pants again," the 46-year-old actor joked when asked how he feels to be appearing in the flesh this time. "But the thing is I never draw distinctions between acting in a live-action situation to live in a performance capture situation...I'll invest equally as much in a character where I'm completely hidden as I would with someone like Ian."
Anyone that has seen his phenomenal work playing Gollum in
LOTR can attest to that. So it looks like its really happening anyway. Of course if it does start shooting in May..which begins in about 4 days, I think Del Toro and Jackson would want to be getting their skates on and casting someone for Bilbo.
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