Billy Connolly joins The Hobbit

Seems like there's apt to be another beardy face to bear in mind among Peter Jackson's hirsute cast for your Hobbit, as Billy Connolly been cast one of the film's many dwarves.Connolly may have Dain Ironfoot, cousin to Richard Amitage's Thorin Oakenshield, and most likely probably the most fearsome gamers in dwarvish history.Healing For Healing For Peter Jackson has suggested that Connolly will be the final accessory for that Hobbit's cast, insisting the Scotsman makes his ensemble complete."We are in a position to not consider an even more fitting actor to see Dain Ironfoot," mentioned Jackson, "the staunchest and many difficult of dwarves, than Billy Connolly, the big Yin themselves. With Billy walking into this role, the cast in the Hobbit is becoming complete. We're not able to wait to find out him round the battleground!"We ought to admit, we're rather excited to find out Connolly assume John Rhys-Davies' layer as wise-cracking badass in chief. We'll be capable of see him swinging his axe when the Hobbit: An Unforeseen Journey opens on 14 December 2012.