He hasn’t got much else to do.” Once the reluctant hobbit hero Bilbo (played by Martin Freeman) enters his lair, Smaug’s true evil genius comes into play. “Smaug is super intelligent ...

Yes, Benedict Cumberbatch will play Smaug, both as a voice and through performance capture for the face, and it strikes me as a tremendous choice. What’s really interesting about the reporting ...

The Grim Reaper, or “Grimmy,” is expected to be the final guest on Dec. 18, but on Thursday, Colbert played host to an even more unusual fictional creation, Smaug the fire-breathing dragon ...

The British actor %22relishes%22 playing two villains in %27The Hobbit%27 sequel%2C out Dec. 13 He plays both Smaug and the Necromancer in the Peter Jackson-directed ...

sarcastic Smaug makes him a hero in his own right. That steadfastness and pragmatism in the face of peril also plays out in Bilbo’s later dealings with the Arkenstone; he is a figure not sworn ...

Evans plays Bard the Bowman, a human who helps ferry the company of dwarves and one hobbit one step closer to their destination, a lost city now occupied by the dragon Smaug, “I started this so ...

he plays the villain, too! "The reason for that was threefold," director Scott Derrickson told Empire. "One, Benedict suggested it. [Two], the awesomeness of his voice — he was Smaug ...

A dashing Benedict Cumberbatch walks the red carpet. The actor plays the Necromancer and also voices the dragon Smaug in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The producer-director's X-Men ...

Benedict Cumberbatch, who's known for his role as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange in the MCU, voiced Smaug in the "Hobbit" movies. Cumberbatch played the dragon in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of ...

IGN visited the New Zealand set of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug back in 2011 -- back when ... Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lilly, who play the elves Legolas and Tauriel, respectively.