If new rumors are to be believed, David Tennant has been beaten to the title of “The Doctor Who That Made It Big In Hollywood.” I mean, I’m sure he’ll be great in the Fright Night remake and all, but it really doesn’t measure up to the possibility that Sylvester McCoy has already been cast in the upcoming two-movie adaptation of The Hobbit.
Bleeding Cool’s Brendan Connelly caught the tweet from the people behind website Screenrush –
Chalk this up to BS if you like but we bumped into former @doctorwho Sylvester McCoy last night and discovered he’s been cast in The Hobbit!
– and confirmed that this was actually what they’d been told by a friend of McCoy’s during the meeting. McCoy apparently lost out to Ian Holm for the role of Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of The Rings trilogy, so this potential news may be some kind of karmic payback – if true, of course. After all, we know that producer (and probable director) Peter Jackson is currently casting the movie as we speak, so it’s not impossible…
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