Rob Kazinsky Lost The Hobbit, but Gains Pacific Rim

Rob Kazinsky, as you may remember, was originally cast as the dwarf Fili in The Hobbit and made all the press-tours before production began along with his fellow dwarves and Martin Freeman. However, a month into filming, he dropped out citing "personal reasons" and the role was taken over by Dean O'Gorman.

Something such as that transpiring well into the shoot could mean one of many things. Perhaps there were in fact issues at home that needed to be sorted out or perhaps he was a pain-in-the-ass for Peter Jackson to deal with and was shown the door. Who knows? Either or, it didn't do him any favors. Notice how great Stuart Townsend's career has gone since being fired off The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

But, in his favor, he's recovered from that loss of appearing in a big studio blockbuster (that would get his name out there to a wide audience) by appearing in another. Variety reports he's joined the cast of Guillermo del Toro's futuristic monster-movie Pacific Rim.

Maybe it's a pure coincidence that Kazinsky ended up in a movie directed by del Toro, who we all know was the originally-assigned director on Hobbit before vacating his seat.