Well the greenlight has seemed to of set things fully in motion now. We've come to the turn of the tide...
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=71003
Martin Freeman, as rumored gets Bilbo. Interesting choice in Thorin there. I think all those years ago in my "Hobbit Dreamcast" I said Keith Allen, from Robin Hood would make an nice scumbag playing the Master of Lake-town. Ah, but we do have his counterpart from the BBC show with Sir Guy, Richard Armitage, getting Thorin.