Sir Ian McKellen has this to say about "The Hobbit."
“The scripts for the two films will be delivered very soon,” he revealed. “Then they'll be budgeted, and then they'll be cast. And they'll be going when they've always said they would be, which is next spring – March or April. Guillermo even told me at one point, 'We're going to film for 383 days.' He's got that artistic autism! Jackson's the same; they're very, very, very alike. They also very different, but they've so much in common. They both can't stand Hollywood and have wonderful imaginations, and they're both obsessed with gore and fantasy. Both of them laugh a great deal. Guillermo's one of the most brilliant men I've ever met. His English vocabulary is way superior to mine!”
He also stated that he is unsure about cameos from other Ring" members such as Aragorn and Legolas. But he states that Andy Serkis who played Gollum is back(as he acts most of the time in costume or cgi-ed over).
Though the likelihood of Hugo Weaving as Lord Elrond is high.
In terms of the "X-Men Origins: Magneto." Here is what he said:
“There's meant to be a Magneto script floating around, but I've not read it, so I suspect it wouldn't involve me,” he said. “I think it would be about the younger Magneto, and the most I could hope for would be to top and tail that. They can't have someone whose face is as lined as mine any longer!”
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there you have it from Sir Ian McKellen.
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