New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Film Recasting Aragorn

The brand new Lord of the Rings film will star certainly one of the franchise’s most beloved characters — performed by a brand new actor.

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum director Andy Serkis advised ScreenRant that the movie will certainly characteristic Aragorn, amongst different returning Lord of the Rings characters. Nevertheless, he is not going to be performed by the person who performed that function in Peter Jackson’s three Lord of the Rings motion pictures, Viggo Mortensen.

“I do not know what’s on the market in the meanwhile,” he mentioned, “however I do know there’s quite a lot of hypothesis, however let’s simply say we’re recasting the function and we’re on the best way to discovering somebody.”

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Though the small print about Serkis’ film are sparse, the movie is understood to be set between the occasions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and the primary Lord of the Rings novel, The Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo and Gandalf are additionally reportedly within the movie — though whether or not Elijah Wooden or Ian McKellen will reprise their roles from Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy stays unclear.

The one identified member of The Hunt for Gollum forged to date is Kate Winslet, though Serkis has but to disclose any particulars about her function. Requested who she is enjoying, he defined…

We have got to maintain all of it again. I imply, look, aside from, I feel it is in all probability frequent data, however our movie takes place between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and it is The Hunt for Gollum, and it’s a bodily hunt for the character, but additionally a psychological hunt for himself. So we’re nearly on the launchpad now, and it’s extremely thrilling. And yeah, it’ll be an enormous trip.

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum is scheduled to open in theaters on December 17, 2027. It’s certainly one of two new Lord of the Rings motion pictures in improvement at Warner Bros. in the meanwhile. The opposite, it was not too long ago revealed, is being written by late-night host Stephen Colbert.