Fry will pla The Master of Laketown, also known as “The Master” and “Master Blaster.” He’s the smart, greedy mayor of a town Bilbo and company hang out in. Other roles have been cast, too. The Master’s conniving servant Alfrid will be played by Ryan Gage, and Conan Stevens will play the orc Azog. “Isn’t that cool? Azog is played by Conan,” Jackson wrote on Facebook, enthusiastically. Uh, is “cool” the right word?

Stephen Fry has joined the cast of Sherlock Holmes 2. Guy Ritchie‘s exxxtreme take on British literature will add Fry in the role of Holmes’s older brother, Mycroft. Here’s what the witty actor had to say of the part:

"I’m playing Mycroft in the sequel to the Sherlock Holmes film Guy Ritchie directed with Robert Downey Jr., and that sort of part is fun, but just once in a while to play a genuine all round sort of lead figure with complexity and tragedy and wit and all the sort of things that Oscar [Wilde] had was a once in a lifetime thrill."

Okay. Can someone translate that from British to English for me and let me know if it was witty or not? Anyway, in the original stories, Mycroft was considered just as brilliant as Sherlock but was lazy and unwilling to prove his deductions. There’s no word yet how the character will be shaped in the sequel nor any on whether or not he’ll be an exxxtreme cage fighter. (Bleeding Cool)