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Marvel just announced that they cast Martin Freeman in a secret role in Captain America: Civil War! Source! Kevin Feige said about him...

From his roles as Bilbo Baggins and Doctor Watson to Tim in ‘The Office,’ Martin’s range from the dramatic to the comedic has consistently impressed us. We couldn’t be more honored or excited to have such a talented actor join the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Wow, I didn't expect this AT ALL! O.O Wow, just... wow! I'm now looking forward to this movie even more!

♣ Rumor has it, Fox is developing an X-Men related TV show: link

♣ A really interesting article about Marvel's movie verse and why it works so well: link

♣ Martin Freeman will be in a BBC2 drama about Adolf Eichmann's televised trial: link

♣ Twin Peaks is getting S3 set in the same town, just 25 years later: link

This actually disappointed me. Not that it wasn't funny but... I had a hard time connecting with the characters. I didn't really... feel them, I guess. Unlike Arthur Christmas, another animated movie from the same company, where I simply adored the characters and rooted for them, here... Eh.

The only interesting part, a part that I really liked was the relationship between the Pirate Captain and the Pirate with the Scarf, his Number Two. Scarf could always cheer the Captain up - and he was also his moral compass. And the one who usually saved the Captain's butt. I LOL'd in the scene where the Captain asked Scarf if he maybe was a woman in disguise. That kinda... gave me a pause. And I had to wonder - if Scarf WAS a woman in disguise, would the Captain actually consider... you know. I mean, I know that it's a movie for kids but there are usually bits and pieces in them that only adults understand and this... This was a surprisingly slashy twist :P

But overall... If you want to give a try to an animated movie from Aardman, go for Arthur Christmas. It's much better.

Gosh, I really need to see this, it looks hilarious!

This looks epic! Simon Pegg's comedies are always hilarious.

Also, I loved it when a reporter asked Benedict Cumberbatch about working with Simon Pegg on STID and Benedict, of course, praised him and so on, but then he said that he had known Simon before but mostly because Simon was great friends with Martin. Aww...

Aww, Ian McKellen babysat Martin Freeman's children while filming The Hobbit:

The actor, who reprises his role as Gandalf in Peter Jackson's prequel to The Lord Of The Rings franchise, stepped in on nanny duties to give Freeman some much-needed time with his wife.

Freeman was separated from wife Amanda and their two children Joe, seven, and Grace, three, for the best part of 18 months during filming, and he was grateful for Sir Ian's help when his family finally joined him on location in New Zealand.

Freeman tells The Sunday Times Magazine, "Yes, I got lovesick. My family would come out for a few weeks then go home again, but over an 18-month period I saw less of them than I'd want...

"When they came over to visit, they had the experience of being babysat by Gandalf. So they were read bedtime stories by Sir Ian McKellen, a man with one of the most beautiful voices in the English language. And that's kind of cool."

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This is so lovely... *happy sigh*

I used this picture for very shallow reasons: I ADORE IT. Man, Benedict looks so, so good in the ST trailers! \o/ Ehm, back to Sherlock, though:

[Benedict] Cumberbatch was asked in an interview with Yahoo UK if [his and Martin Freeman]’s big screen success meant that the need for Sherlock was suddenly an afterthought.

His response? “Absolutely not. I don’t think that’s a possibility because I love it too much. Making [Sherlock] is all about availability. Martin Freeman has the same kind of pressures on him now. It’s a thing of quality not quantity that show – thank God. We started young with it. We started when they meet and we still are young for those roles. There’s no reason why it can’t continue until we get too old.”

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Great to hear it from his mouth that he's game. And I think Martin's too, he loves Watson. So, now just to convince Moffat and Gatiss to write more on a more or less regular basis!

Martin Freeman was asked about Sherlock S3 yesterday and this is what he answered:

Sherlock's Dr Watson revealed he had seen a "rough outline" of the first episode of series three. Although he is yet to see a written script, Freeman did say, "the first one sounds brilliant".

And if you're wondering how Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock can possibly have survived The Reichenbach Fall, Freeman is happy to drop a few hints. "Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss tell us bits about it so I know that all the clues were on screen. It's not going to be a cheat - everything that we saw on that final episode offers hints as to how he did it."

And what about the three words cryptically revealed by Gatiss at this year's Edinburgh festival - ( spoilers! )

? Freeman admits he's party to their meaning, but "I don't want to ruin the surprise..."

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*hands* Like really!

The July issue of the Czech fantasy/sci-fi/horror magazine Pevnost - link - has a huge article about The Hobbit with some amazing info (and one of the short stories that I translated for them, which is why I got my hands on it). You know, the more I hear about the films, the more I want to see them!



So, the info. According to the article, Legolas' part should be a LOT bigger than everybody thought, not just a cameo as planned at first. Now it looks like ( could be considered a spoiler! ) Just how awesome is that? \o/ Please, let it be true! I need more Legolas in my life. Though I wouldn't mind if he ( my speculations! )

Also, Lee Pace as Thranduil, Legolas' father? Can I squee now already? I hope there will be a lot of gen fics about Thranduil and his son. I need them in my life RIGHT NOW! I mean, Lee Pace! He's younger than Orlando Bloom! Young looking Thranduil and his son Legolas, that kind of pushes all my father-son buttons!

I wasn't sure about Evangeline Lily at first, but I really can't wait to see her Tauriel now. And I hope that the article was right and Tauriel and ( spoiler ) become a couple. I would really, really love that and I'm not even much of a het fan.

And it looks like the part of Bard the Bowman will be much bigger too. He should be the Aragorn of the 2nd movie. I really like Luke Evans and I hope he will do the part justice. His Aramis was one of the best parts of the new The Three Musketeers - together with Orlando Bloom's Buckingham!

Oh, and I didn't know that they considered James McAvoy for the part of Bilbo when Martin Freeman's Sherlock schedule clashed with The Hobbit's. Now I'm torn. Martin Freeman will rock the part like whoa, that's for sure, but... James McAvoy!

Also, the article detailed the plans Guillermo del Toro had for the movie, while he was hired to direct it a couple of years back, and I'm really, REALLY glad that Peter Jackson took over in the end. Del Toro wanted to tinge it all gold and use dummies instead of CGI. Wha...? Can you imagine a Smaug made of rubber? O.o Thank the gods above for Peter Jackson!

But mostly... LEGOLAS! \o/

I finally started reading "The Hobbit". Yes, yes, don't judge me, despite being a big fantasy fan, I've never read it before. You see, I'm not really into hobbits. Not even the LotR ones. They were the least interesting thing about LotR for me, I'm rather an elf girl - see my icon.

But then this beautiful thing happened:



Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins. I'm not a fan of Elijah Wood or Sean Astin or of any other actor who played a hobbit in LotR - but I'm a big fan of Martin Freeman. And that totally changed my attitude towards the movie, the book and hobbits in general. And so I finally got my hands on the book and started reading it. It's the illustrated version with beautiful pictures and an amazing cover:



We'll see how I like it...