TheOneRing.net delivered a 10:30 a.m. panel today at Comic-Con on its first full day of programming. TORn staffers Calisuri (owner), Quickbeam (celebrity) and MrCere (senior staff) were joined by Ian McKellen’s webmaster Keith Stern and Weta’s master chief, Richard Taylor. Continue reading “TORn panel at Comic-Con: Full house + GDT”
Category: Casting Rumors
(Note: If you think, ‘This seems like a lot of posts smashed into a single post?’ then you are thinking well. I have a plane to catch but this is must read stuff!)
Like always, Comic-Con is set to open with hoards and masses about to storm the white towers of the San Diego Convention Center. Somewhere around 140,000 people will decend on the convention in the next week and TheOneRing.net will be there and bring as much of it to you as we can. We have shirts, panels, podcasts, Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, Weta and contests to tell you about so read on! Continue reading “TORn podcast! Comic-con! Shirts! Contests! PJ!”
It’s being rumoured here and here that the casting of Bilbo Baggins for The Hobbit may be announced at Comic-Con next week. Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy and David Tennant are all rumoured to be in the running for the role – but according to what Peter Jackson told us when we spoke to him recently, the fans shouldn’t be holding their breath for a ‘Con announcement.
“No, we won’t be announcing Bilbo for a little while,” he said when we asked about a Comic-Con announcement. “We’re starting to think about casting, but we’re knee-deep in the script right now. And when we do go to actors, they’re probably going to ask to see a script, so we’re powering ahead with getting the first draft done.” More..
UPDATE: A source inside the production tells us they are not aware of any such announcement to take place at Comic-Con. We feel pretty comfortable saying this rumor isn’t valid.
It is probably typical internet rumor-mongering, but we keep getting whispered to that the lead for the two Hobbit films is cast and is heading to Comic-Con in San Diego. Continue reading “Is ‘the Hobbit’ a Dr.?”
It is official, TheOneRing.net has been officially invited to present a panel at the 2009 edition of Comic-Con in San Diego on its first day of programming on Thursday, July 23 at 10:30 a.m. in room 7AB. That great news gets even better because we can announce that Weta’s own Richard Taylor is very likely to join in! Continue reading “TORn at Comic-Con with big surprise guest”
Mauro writes: I was listening to a Basta de Todo interview with the great Spanish actor/comedian/writer Santiago Segura, who performed in many movies and is a personal friend of both Guillermo del Toro and Alex de la Iglesia, featured in a lot of movies of both filmmakers. He performed starring roles in Spanish released titles of both of them and he did several cameo roles on the Hollywood movies of Alex and Guillermo (Hellboy, Perdita Durango, Blade II, etc). He’s sort of a fetish actor for both, he mentioned he’s traveling next week to New Zealand to “visit” his friend Guillermo, (he jokingly said “I’m going down there to beg him for a role on The Hobbit”). The interviewers and Santiago even hinted that the chance of a role is pretty much secure. Santiago Segura imdb