Hobbit Movie Update: The Were-Bear Stays in the Picture

I missed this while my computer was down, but it's fantastic news. The second Hobbit movie by Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro won't be a fanfic gap-bridger between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings as originally announced. Instead, they're splitting The Hobbit into two films so that they can do the whole story "including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur." And - one can hope - Beorn?

My excitement for these films just increased by two-thousand percent.