Evangeline Lilly, best known to genre fans as Kate in Lost and celebrity face of L'Oreal, will be playing a woodland elf named Tauriel whose name translates to ‘daughter of Mirkwood’ in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.
“Beyond that, we must leave you guessing! (no, there is no romantic connection to Legolas),” said Jackson, adding: “What is not a secret is how talented and compelling an actress Evangeline is; we are thrilled and excited she will be the one to bring our first true Sylvan Elf to life.”
Lilly bears a striking resemblance to Liv Tyler who played Arwen in The Lord of the Rings. She'll be joining Sir Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett and Orlando Bloom. Ian Holm is believed to be in negotiations to play the older Bilbo Baggins, too.
Warner Bros is purportedly funding the $500 million production, which will be split over two movies and filmed back-to-back in New Zealand.
“There's no way you can pace yourself for shoots like these,” Jackson revealed. “When we were going through the schedule for The Hobbit, I felt a terrible drop in my stomach when I saw that we'd be shooting for 254 days. We're only 12 days short of The Lord Of The Rings even though we're only doing two movies.”
An Unexpected Journey will be released next December and There And Back Again following on in December 2014.
Source: On The Box
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