Tobey Maguire is The Hobbit?

The up to a week Spiderman Tobey Maguire could be chosen to give life to the young Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, tape to film the work of JRR Tolkien, who directed by Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson will produce and will premiere in 2011.

It is not the first time the name sounds Maguire to play the protagonist of the prequel to 'The Lord of the Rings', but now, after leaving the Spiderman saga, the rumor has taken renewed vigor.

Jackson and Del Toro has already prepared the script of the first film and the filming will start in a few months before the summer in New Zealand, and Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf and confirmed the search of another hero of the story, the young Hobbit, is needed urgently.

With the turn that Sony wanted to give Spiderman, Del Toro and Jackson could have seen the light and in fact the British newspaper The Sun is assumed that Maguire will play Bilbo. "The whole team is now poured into the casting. And Tobey is not only one of the most popular faces in Hollywood, but also one of the best actors," says a source close to the shooting told the newspaper.

But until that Del Toro and Jackson made the official announcement about the deal all are nothing more than rumors. It will take a few more months to see if it changes the adjusted Maguire Marvel superhero costume cape and the pointy ears of the hobbits of Middle Earth. The first film of The Hobbit will be released in Christmas of 2011 and its sequel, a year later.