Ron Perlman has confirmed to Coming Soon that he won't appear in The Hobbit...
Im not doing , Perlman said, adding with a laugh, I think maybe thats a scoop for you.
Once upon a time when Guillermo del Toro was going to direct, he had roles for his Hellboy star Perlman (probably Beorn, the shape-shifter) and his frequent collaborator Doug Jones (multiple creatures, I hear) but those days are long gone. Meanwhile thanks to Total Film, work on The Shire is well underway...