Elijah Wooden instructed us that he’d like to play Frodo once more within the new Lord of the Rings films being made by Andy Serkis and Peter Jackson.
The Fantasia Movie Pageant is in full swing in Montreal, and it kicked off in excessive gear with the world premiere of Bookworm. The film – which we beloved (learn our evaluate right here) – stars the good Elijah Wooden as an illusionist who’s summoned to New Zealand to take care of his estranged daughter after her mom winds up in a coma. Quickly, the woman, Mildred (performed by the terrific Nell Fisher), convinces her father to accompany her into the New Zealand wilderness to trace down a legendary panther, just for the 2 to cope with hazard at each flip.
Wooden attended the movie’s crimson carpet premiere and was sort sufficient to speak with us a bit. The interview will likely be up subsequent week, however Wooden did give us an intriguing reply after we requested if he’d be prepared to return to Center Earth in Andy Serkis’s The Hunt for Gollum.
“It could be fairly unimaginable. I’ve to say, any return to New Zealand to work with these people inside the context of that world could be…leaping again right into a world that’s so beloved and means a lot to me. So yeah, it might be superior.”
Viggo Mortensen additionally not too long ago stated he’d be prepared to return, relying on the script. It ought to be famous that Wooden additionally has been a long-time supporter of style cinema, together with his firm, SpectreVision, answerable for among the coolest indie horror movies in recent times, comparable to A Woman Walks House Alone At Evening and Mandy (they’re additionally behind Oz Perkins’s The Monkey). I instructed Elijah that one other movie he made, The Greasy Strangler, has taken up everlasting residency in my nightmares ever since I caught it at Sundance some years again, to which he stated:
“Oh, I LOVE The Greasy Strangler. You recognize, there’s really a connection to this film (Bookworm). Toby Harvard wrote The Greasy Strangler, and he’s the author of this movie, so there you go!”
Whereas they might share the identical author, don’t anticipate the identical gross-out vibe from the moderately charming Bookworm when Vertical Leisure releases it someday within the subsequent few months. Keep tuned for extra from Elijah and Fantasia!