{"id":6288,"date":"2012-02-09T20:23:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T01:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2012-02-09T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T01:23:34","slug":"on-the-hobbits-casting-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6288","title":{"rendered":"On The Hobbit’s Casting Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I read an interesting criticism from Ben Child of Peter Jackson’s upcoming Hobbit<\/i> films — the films will be an extended exercise in stunt casting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With the news that Billy Connolly is to take the role of dwarf king Dain Ironfoot in his adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s debut Middle-earth-set novel, Jackson appears to be taking stunt casting on the project to a level of which even Quentin Tarantino might be proud.
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\nThe Hobbit, by contrast, has already given us a lineup of dwarves and halflings that might have come straight from the little black book of a BBC TV casting director.
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\n[Is] it really so necessary for the Master of Lake-town to appear in the smug yet cuddly form of dear old Stephen Fry and wizard Radagast the Brown to arrive in the shape of ex-timelord Sylvester McCoy?
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\nConnolly’s appointment, in particular, seems likely to add an air of pantomime to the proceedings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A valid criticism? Off-base?<\/p>\n

Let’s contemplate the film’s trailer.<\/p>\n