Elijah Wood Is ‘Taken aback’ They’re Making New Lord of the Rings Motion footage

Elijah Wood has been performing for greater than 30 years, starting off as a baby star having fun with the iconic American literary persona Huckleberry Finn and appearing in dozens of movies. But to at the least one generation of film followers, he’ll be perpetually associated with one perform in particular: Frodo Baggins, the not going Hobbit hero of Peter Jackson’s ambitious, file-breaking adaptation of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.

In a recent interview with GQ, Wood—who can currently be considered in the 2d season of cult hit drama Yellowjackets—reflected on the affect that The Lord of the Rings has had on his lifestyles and career, and shared his solutions on the recent news that Warner Bros. is planning to make “lots of movies” per the trilogy of novels.

Whereas considerably cynically responsive to the financial ambitions that would have influenced this artistic decision-making, Wood stays cautiously optimistic that a return to Center-Earth also will doubtless be perfect as real because the celebrated.

“I’m fascinated and I’m exasperated. I hope it be real. I’m surprised—I smash not know why I’m surprised because, clearly there would possibly well per chance maybe be extra movies,” he acknowledged. “Obviously at the core of that, is a desire to make a huge selection of cash. It’s miles not that a bunch of executives are esteem, ‘Let’s make in actuality superior art work’… And, again, not begrudging any one because, clearly, it’s commerce. But monumental art work can come from commerce. So those two issues must not mutually abnormal.”

“But Lord of the Rings did not come out of that field,” Wood persisted. “It came out of a passion for these books and attempting to gaze them realized. And I hope that that’s indirectly what’s going to force every thing forward with whatever these subsequent movies are. I perfect hope that it be the identical motivating part at its core, whenever they hire a screenwriter and a filmmaker—that it’s with reverence for Tolkien’s cloth and enthusiasm to explore it.”