Martin Freeman, who plays Bilbo in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, revealed that his “Sherlock Holmes” co-star Benedict Cumberbatch will also star in the project. It’s unknown at the moment what role Cumberbatch will play in the two-part project.
The Hobbit: There and Back Again is scheduled to be released in December 2012 followed by its sequel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in December 2013.
via TheOneRing.net