Emmie
11-03-2009, 04:53 PM
“As Peter has said, they loved writing Gandalf [for The Hobbit] because they knew who they were writing him for,” McKellen told us exclusively in an interview last week while promoting AMC’s The Prisoner. “There are a lot of characters in The Hobbit, including, crucially, Bilbo, and they don’t know who’s going to play Bilbo. So it’s extremely attractive that this part has been written for me. The other Gandalf was written for, well, just as Gandalf. There’s lots for me to enjoy, in all sorts of ways. And I couldn’t be happier.”
Source: http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/11/03/34123-gandalf-has-read-the-hobbit-script/
Source: http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/11/03/34123-gandalf-has-read-the-hobbit-script/