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Hooray! We've been hoping to hear this for such a long time!

After much uncertainty, Ian McKellen has officially signed on to return as Gandalf in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit!

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Casting's coming along nicely, we think.

Sources are reporting that Andy Serkis has closed his deal to reprise his role as Gollum in The Hobbit.

So far, he's joining pretty much the entire original cast, including Cate Blanchett and Elijah Wood.

Still waiting on a done deal from Ian McKellen's corner though.

C'mon, precious! Ink that up!

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He's thinking about it!

Sources are claiming that Orlando Bloom is in talks with New Line Cinema to return as Legolas for The Hobbit. He hear he is very close to a deal and that the role would be much more than just a cameo.

Awesome! Nice to see that he has some loyalty to at least one franchise!

That makes two of the originals that are set to return! Maybe now they can get Ian McKellen to step up!

Who else would U like to see return to the shire?

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If they don't figure all of their shiz out, this movie is going to implode in on itself!

Production of The Hobbit, the prequel to The Lord of the Rings films, has pretty much been troubled since day one, but now we're hearing news that Sir Ian McKellen may put the final nail in the coffin - by dropping out as Gandalf!

He reveals:

"Well I'm not under contract and my time is running out and I'm enjoying working in the theatre and frankly, I would like to race after doing 'Waiting For Godot,' get on with doing another play but we'll have to see. I don't give the producers the impression that I'm sitting waiting. What it will be I genuinely don't know. It'll either be, we're going ahead or we're not."

Sounds like he's just as fed up as everyone else with this mess of a movie!

Understandably so! We'd be over it, too!

Thoughts??

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Oh! He was really good in Inglorious Basterds, so we're definitely optimistic about this!

Actor Michael Fassbender is reportedly in negotiations to star as a young Magneto in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class!

He even sort of looks like Ian McKellan!

We think he and James McAvoy will certainly make a SEKSI pair of mutants!

Thoughts??

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We want to believe you, Ian McKellan! But with all of the pre-production dramz, we just don't know!

Despite all this shiz that has stopped the production of The Hobbit from moving forward, Gandalf the Grey himself took to Twitter to assure fans that The Hobbit is still happening, despite losing its director, Guillermo del Toro!

He wrote:

"Hobbit" sets are ready, script ready and movie is casting this month. Fans are not to worry. The films will get made. I suspect we'll start shooting at end of this year.

Yeah. We suspect about 18 more snags in the plan!

LOLz!

What do U think?? Will The Hobbit ever see the light of day??

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Get ready to celebrate, nerds!

According to actor Ian McKellen, the first of the two Hobbit films will begin shooting in July.

A spokeswoman for New Line denies the start date, but McKellen claims the ball is rolling.

"Casting in Los Angeles, New York City and London has started," said the actor. "The first draft is crammed with old and new friends, again on a quest in Middle Earth. The director Guillermo del Toro is now living in Wellington, close to the Jacksons' and the studio in Miramar."

It's rumored that Peter Jackson is scrambling to finish the second script, but it better be done soon. McKellan claims that the films will take a year to make!!!

Will U see The Hobbit?!

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