Entertainment Weekly reports that Sir Ian McKellan’s official website brings word that “The Hobbit” begins shooting in July. The official statement at the site reads thusly:
THE HOBBIT’s, two films, start shooting in New Zealand in July. Filming will take over a year. Casting in Los Angeles, New York City and London has started. The script too proceeds. The first draft is crammed with old and new friends, again on a quest in Middle Earth.
The director Guillermo del Toro is now living in Wellington, close to the Jacksons’ and the studio in Miramar.
And now, to get you in the spirit . . .
