While Robert Downey Jr. currently plays the Elizabethan version of Sherlock Holmes on the big screen, Benedict Cumberbatch electrifies the small screen playing the same character in a present day retelling made for the BBC. His co-star Martin Freeman who plays Watson on the show, scored the main role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson‘s prequels to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit.
Last month Freeman let slip to BBC Entertainment that Cumberbatch would also be joining the cast, though at the time there was no word on who he would be playing. It’s now been revealed that not only is he providing the voice of the character Necromancer, he’ll also be voicing and portraying the pivotal role of the dragon Smaug via motion capture. Cumberbatch is an ideal choice and his performance will likely be as mesmerizing as his portrayal of the super sleuth. The actor is garnering plenty of buzz for his supporting role in Steven Spielberg‘s War Horse, and Danny Boyle‘s stage production of Frankenstein. He’ll also be seen in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy along with the man playing Bane in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, Tom Hardy.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released on December 14, 2012, part two The Hobbit: There and Back Again arrives December 13, 2013. The prequel story is set sixty years before the events of The Lord of the Rings and sees Bilbo Baggins joining up with a band of dwarfs to retrieve a great treasure from the lair of a powerful dragon.
via: Deadline One Ring.net
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