The Hobbit to be delayed again!
Doug Jones—who played the title character in del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and played Abe Sapien in the director's Hellboy movies—told
Sci-Fi Wire that
The Hobbit will be delayed a short while and will not begin until later this summer.
"It's going to be delayed for two months," Jones said in an interview Sunday at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention.
But Jones, who specializes in creature acting, did confirm that he'll be in
The Hobbit in some form or other. "I'm a monster of some sort," he said.
The first installment of
The Hobbit is scheduled for release around Christmas 2011, with the second part coming out a year later.
Jones will next be seen in a small role in the upcoming apocalyptic action movie
Legion. He plays an enigmatic character called the Ice Cream Man.
"I was convinced to do this small part in
Legion because I was told that I could show my real face," Jones said on a panel with other actors and director/co-writer Scott Stewart at the convention.
"Doug Jones is fantastic. He has such an expressive, elastic face, he's like the Cirque du Soleil of actors," Stewart said. "It was nice to give him a special small role that he could play with his face like this."
"Yeah, that's what convinced me, when Scott said, 'You get to look like yourself' when I come out as the Ice Cream Man," Jones added. "It's not a big role. I come out in the third act as a harbinger of doom. I describe him like the first raindrops in Noah's flood, and I'm one of the raindrops."
Legion opens Jan. 22.
Source:
Sci-Fi Wire