Ronan Won’t Star in “The Hobbit” After All

Amidst the rumors that she’d star as an elf in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, Saoirse Ronan recently signed on for the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s The Host. With that in the mix, Ronan tells The Belfast Telegraph that she can’t commit to the film. Here’s what she had to say:

"It's probably not going to work out with The Hobbit unfortunately.Because I would have been working for about a year on it and there were other projects that I was very interested in, but Pete and [his producer wife] Fran have been very good about it and very understanding. I'll have to just go back down to New Zealand for a holiday and hang out with the hobbits.”

Jackson and Ronan worked together on The Lovely Bones film