{"id":45214,"date":"2011-06-17T01:44:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T06:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=45214"},"modified":"2011-06-17T01:44:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T06:44:02","slug":"deadline-com-exclusive-benedict-cumberbatch-voicing-smaug-and-the-necromancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/06\/17\/45214-deadline-com-exclusive-benedict-cumberbatch-voicing-smaug-and-the-necromancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline.com Exclusive: Benedict Cumberbatch Voicing Smaug (And The Necromancer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-44567\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/05\/22\/44565-breaking-benedict-cumberbatch-in-the-hobbit\/benedict-cumberbatch-jpg-446%c3%97251-pixels-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-44567 no-lazyload\" title=\"Benedict-Cumberbatch.jpg 446\u00d7251 pixels\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Benedict-Cumberbatch.jpg-446\u00d7251-pixels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>Close on the heels of their exclusive that Luke Evans has been cast in the role of Bard the Bowman,\u00a0<em>Deadline.com<\/em> has broken another exclusive that <strong>Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong> will be voicing the character of both\u00a0<strong>Smaug\u00a0the Dragon<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>the Necromancer<\/strong> in <em>The Hobbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Via Deadline.com<\/strong>: After reporting today\u00a0that Luke Evans will play Bard in the Peter Jackson-directed\u00a0<em>The Hobbit <\/em>and wondering who&#8217;ll voice the dragon Smaug, Deadline can now tell you that it will be Benedict Cumberbatch. 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