Hobbit Cast Front-up

The cast of Peter Jackson’s two-film adaptation of The Hobbit were this month introduced to the news media at a press conference in Wellington at the Park Road Post production facility. The event featured Martin Freeman, the British Office and Sherlock Holmes star who will play the pint-sized Bilbo Baggins, as well as the actors who will play his 13 dwarf companions. Despite the many setbacks the films had faced, Freeman told Agence France-Presse, “we’re ready to go – just as soon as 215 comes around.”