A Long Expected PartyCelebriel reports, According to an article on the MTV Movie Blog, Viggo Mortensen is open reprising his role as Aragorn in “The Hobbit.” And according to Viggo, one thing’s for certain: Whether he’s in it or not, he thinks there’s only one man that could possibly bring the story to the big screen. “It seems pretty obvious that Peter Jackson would be the person to direct it,” he said. Read the full report from MTV.

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Viggo Mortensen is slated to be a guest on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ tonight on CBS. He is there to promote his latest film ‘Eastern Promises’, which is currently premiering at the Toronto and Montreal Film Festivals, and opens this weekend. ‘The Late Show’ airs on CBS at 11:35PM.

Holm at Cannes
Happy Birthday Ian Holm! Sir Ian Holm, CBE (born 12 September 1931), is an Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning English actor known for his stage work and for many film roles, including the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Sir William Withey Gull in From Hell, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element and as the android Ash in Alien.

A rep for Viggo Mortensen confirms that the Lord of the Rings star is in early talks to star in the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling, Oprah-approved novel The Road. The story, about a man and his young son traveling through a desperate, post-apocalyptic world, is being adapted by Joe Penhall (Enduring Love). Aussie John Hillcoat, who helmed last year’s down-under Western The Proposition, will direct. [More]

Viggo Mortensen will be a guest on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ on Wednesday, September 12th. He is there to promote his latest film ‘Eastern Promises’, a new thriller again directed by David Cronenberg, who worked with Mortensen on ‘A History of Violence’. ‘The Late Show’ airs on CBS at 11:35PM Eastern. ‘Eastern Promises’ is set to be released on September 14th.