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scifiwire.com - 6/23/2009

The star of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein spills details on it and The Hobbit

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With director Guillermo del Toro out and about promoting his debut novel The Strain , he's also been dropping some juicy casting details for some of his upcoming high-profile projects, including The Hobbit and Frankenstein . In particular, last week he told Sci-Fi Squad that his longtime performance collaborator Doug Jones ( Hellboy II ) would be involved in The Hobbit and, more important, would play the monster in his remake of the horror classic Frankenstein .

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