Script Finished and Bilbo Baggins Cast?

According to The One Ring, the Lord of the Rings actor Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf) says the script is finished and he knows who has been cast to play the young Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit movies. The information is from a source who said they spoke with the actor so no telling what reinterpretations have been added into mix.

From TheOneRing:

Then we received the following e-mail tonight from Ringer spy Olli from an all-night LOTR screening which seems to confirm everything we have been hearing and he was definitely not the source of our earlier rumors. He says, “Currently at the all night screening at the bfi IMAX, London of lotr. Ian McKellan dropped by earlier and revealed he is currently re-Reading the hobbit and is expecting to be back in NZ in march. App(arently) he also knows who they’re getting to play Bilbo & that he should be seeing the script within the next week. Well it’s 3:30am – TTT is about to begin so bye!”

Radcliffe Says No To The Hobbit

A month or so ago there was a rumor that Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliff was in the running to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit movies. That rumor was sense struck down as the script is not yet completed. However, just in case Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro were considering him for the part (I doubt it), the actor has indicated he is not interested in the role to Hero Complex.

"I'd have to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' not that anyone has asked me," the 20-year-old actor told me last week in England. "Honestly, I don't think they would want me anyway, it's just too close. Whatever I do next, I don't think there will be any wizards in it!"

"James McAvoy is fantastic. I think he should play it. I've done the fantasy-film thing. Actually, so has he, with the 'Chronicles of Narnia,' of course. But I've done it for longer. He can take over. I'm done. I don't think anybody involved in that would want me to, either."