One final cast member has signed on for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit . The Hollywood Reporter has word that Billy Connolly ( The Boondock Saints , The X-Files: I Want to Believe ) has signed on to play Dain Ironfoot.
Ironfoot is the Dwarf cousin of Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and heeds the call to war during the Battle of the Five Armies. As such, he's likely to appear in only the second film, The Hobbit: There and Back Again unless his part is significantly expanded from what's in the original book.
"The Hobbit" follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo...
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