Whether or not Viggo Mortensen returns for the new Lord of the Rings movies depends upon the script.
“I haven’t read a script. So I don’t know,” Mortensen advised The Hollywood Reporter in an interview printed on Sunday, June 30. “The script is the maximum important factor to me except I’m broke, I don't have any cash and I’m lucky to get any activity. So it is dependent.”
This isn't the first time Mortensen has addressed his attainable go back to Middle-earth. Speaking about the new movies with GQ in May, Mortensen mentioned he wanted to keep away from returning to the position of Aragorn for “silly” causes.
“I don’t know exactly what the story is, I haven’t heard,” he instructed the outlet in an interview remaining month. “I would handiest do it if I used to be right for it in terms of, you understand, the age I'm now and so forth. I might handiest do it if I used to be proper for the personality. It would be foolish to do it another way.”
Mortensen famously portrayed Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy, based on the delusion novels of the identical title by J.R.R. Tolkien. Mortensen additionally had to be convinced to tackle the role in those initial motion pictures, best agreeing to play the secret royal at the insistence of his son, Henry.
Warner Bros. Discovery initially introduced new LOTR movies were in the works in 2023. CEO David Zaslav provided an replace in May, saying that new Lord of the Rings movies have been “in the early phases of script building” and the corporate “look forward to[s] releasing in 2026.”
Zaslav added that the movies will “discover storylines yet to be informed.” The first film is lately under the working identify Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. Andy Serkis will reprise his role of Gollum from the unique film trilogy and is set to direct the first of two new films from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures.
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“Yesssss, Precious. The time has come over again to project into the unknown with my expensive pals, the abnormal and incomparable guardians of Middle-earth Peter, Fran and Philippa,” Serkis said in a observation at the time, in step with THR.
Jackson, who helmed each the original movies and The Hobbit trilogy from 2012-2014, “will be involved each and every step of the approach” as neatly, according to Zaslav, at the side of longtime writing companions Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens.
“It is an honor and a privilege to shuttle back to Middle-earth with our excellent good friend and collaborator, Andy Serkis, who has unfinished business with that stinker — Gollum!,” Jackson, Boyens and Walsh mentioned in a commentary. “As lifelong enthusiasts of Professor Tolkien’s huge mythology, we are proud to be operating with [WBD film chiefs] Mike De Luca, Pam Abdy and the whole staff at Warner Bros. on any other epic journey!”
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