By The team behind “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy are trying to get some of the original stars from those films back for the upcoming live-action “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum” movie.
Andy Serkis is returning as Gollum of course for the film which is expected to be set during the events of “The Fellowship of the Ring” in a time right before Frodo leaves the Shire.
Philippa Boyens, one of the core trio behind the original trilogy alongside Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, spoke about the live-action film recently and revealed to The Playlist that the team would love Viggo Mortensen to return as Aragon if he’s open to it:
“Honestly, that’s entirely going to be up to Viggo, collaboratively and we are at a very early stage. I’ve spoken to Viggo, Andy [Serkis] has spoken to him, Peter [Jackson] has spoken to him, we’ve all spoken to each other and honestly, I cannot imagine anyone else playing Aragorn, but it will be completely and entirely up to Viggo.”
In the film, Aragorn is tasked by Gandalf to find Gollum before he can share any sensitive information about the One Ring with anyone and have it get back to Sauron. Mortensen is notably older than he was during his time as Aragorn, but Boyens says they won’t use of A.I. technology to de-age him:
“I know Andy wants to work with him, but also, we don’t see this as like, using A.I. [technology], this is about a digital make-up, and whether Viggo does it or will entirely depends on how good the script is. And he doesn’t have a script yet. So to be fair to Viggo, let’s see if we write a good enough role and that he can find enough in it to see that it’s a performance he wants to take on. After that, it’ll be between Viggo and Andy of how that is achieved.”
Even if Mortensen turns down reprising his role, Boyens says they would still want him “heavily involved” in the project:
“I suspect if he decides he doesn’t want to do it we would still want him to be heavily involved, like how do we hand this character off. But literally that decision is several, several months away. He’s got to read the script first and that’s exactly what I’m going to be working on when I get out of this interview [laughs].”
Serkis directs the film which is said to be targeting a 2026 release.
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