McAvoy's not playing IAN FLEMING or BILBO BAGGINS!
Denies rumor of starring in 007 creator's biopic and The Hobbit.
Those persistent rumours of James McAvoy playing Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit just won't go away and you do have to wonder if they ever will until either McAvoy fills his summer 2010 schedule (he's only got one movie lined up right now, the comedy/drama I'm With Cancer) or Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro actually reveal who they want as their Middle-Earth leading man. In a fresh interview with Collider, McAvoy responds to the "bullshit" claims that he's agreed to star as Bilbo Baggins for the tiring 14 month shoot which begins in June and whilst he is at it, also denies that he has been cast in an Ian Fleming biopic. Though he does claim the script for James Bond creator's life story did fall into his lap a long time ago but he never even got round to meeting the producers about the project.