Freeman to play Bilbo in The Hobbit

**Scrag Meister** · 22 October 2010, 13:57

Originally posted by d000hg View Post

No, not Morgan Freeman, Martin Freeman from The Office and Hitch Hiker's Guide. I heard Simon Pegg saying he hoped MF would take the role, and I can see he might be decent... he does kind of look like a hobbit:

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He was good in that recent Sherlock mini-series.

**amcdonald** · 22 October 2010, 14:05

All you need now is for Pegg to be Sam and let the jokes commence

**moorfield** · 22 October 2010, 21:56

Originally posted by amcdonald View Post

All you need now is for Pegg to be Sam and let the jokes commence

Alright, I'll bite.

Sam wasn't a character in The Hobbit, so I think you are talking out of your Ring.

**AtW** · 22 October 2010, 22:04

**NotAllThere** · 23 October 2010, 06:30

Brian Blessed for Beorn.

**TimberWolf** · 23 October 2010, 11:23

Oh, the unfunny one from the Office who was also carp in Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy.

**norrahe** · 23 October 2010, 11:58

Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

Brian Blessed for Beorn.

He should have been the voice of treebeard

Freeman to play Bilbo in The Hobbit