EXCLUSIVE: After reporting today that Luke Evans will play Bard in the Peter Jackson-directed The Hobbit and wondering who'll voice the dragon Smaug, Deadline can now tell you that it will be ...

3. The dragon's mouth was a different kind of challenge. When Andy Serkis did motion-capture to play Gollum in the first Hobbit movie, it was for a character with a humanoid face. With Smaug and ...

But it's Cumberbatch's voice as Smaug that ultimately makes him a new cinema icon, Jackson adds. "You walk away from the movie and it doesn't matter how many teeth he's got or how many bloody ...

Benedict Cumberbatch will voice dragon Smaug in Lord of the Rings prequels The Hobbit, it has been confirmed.. Martin Freeman, who is Cumberbatch's Sherlock co-star and will play Bilbo Baggins in ...

Benedict Cumberbatch didn’t just lend his voice to the role of Smaug in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.The actor put his full body into the villainous dragon, lending his talents to the ...

“Getting Smaug to convincingly vocalize his speech in a way that maintained all of the richness and nuance of Benedict’s voice was a vital part of making Smaug work as character,” explained ...

Smaug must be one of the best parts of both Lord of the Rings trilogies, and the best thing about him was the immaculate voice talents of the inimitable Benedict Cumberbatch.

The new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is released, sparking a frenzied reaction from fans online.

Nearly everything about "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" represents an improvement over the first installment of Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved creation.

Clash Of The Titans and Tamara Drewe star Luke Evans has joined Peter Jackson’s currently shooting adaptation of The Hobbit . Evans will play Bard the Grim (otherwise known as Bard the Bowman ...

He's the biggest star of the movie so there was a lot that went into creating Smaug, the dragon the size of a 747 that rules over Erebor with greedy malevolence in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.