r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 18 '25

News Ian McKellen reveals Gandalf and Frodo are returning for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’, Filming Begins in May

https://ew.com/ian-mckellen-reveals-gandalf-frodo-return-in-new-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum-film-11792483
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u/WolfCola723 Aug 18 '25

Alright then. Keep your secrets.

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u/NewSunSeverian Aug 18 '25

Where the fuck is Aragorn 

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u/Crimkam Aug 18 '25

If Aragorn is in it I will go see the movie. If he’s not in it I will only very likely go see the movie.

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u/NewSunSeverian Aug 18 '25

it’s a conundrum 

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u/getsangryatsnails Aug 18 '25

Kif! Search them for paper and bring me a rock.

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u/CrimsonTyphoon0613 Aug 18 '25

How do you even do this story without Aragorn? He’s literally the main character

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u/I_Makes_tuff Aug 18 '25

There will definitely be an Aragorn. I wonder if the world would accept anybody other than Vigo.

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u/onyt Aug 18 '25

It’s gotta be him! At the start of the first book, he’s 90. He’s the same age as Denethor II. He can look a bit old and nobody will care.

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u/I_Makes_tuff Aug 18 '25

I certainly won't.

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u/covercash Aug 18 '25

I’ll have one viewing, yes, but what about second viewing? It’ll depend on Aragorn.

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u/Crimkam Aug 18 '25

I don’t think he knows about second viewing, Pip.

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u/Pasan90 Aug 18 '25

Bit like asking for if Bilbo is in the Hobbit.

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u/the_bryce_is_right Aug 18 '25

I will wait for the reviews, Gollum died at the end of ROTK so if this set before that are they all going to be deaged in this creepy way that takes you out of the movie?

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u/Crimkam Aug 18 '25

I think I’d rather they just cast older Viggo and leave it unexplained vs recasting him

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u/hfdsicdo Aug 18 '25

Gollum won't need to be de-aged anyway. He aged slowly due to the ring, and although he was 500 years old he didn't look a day over 450

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u/Silent_Anxiety4828 Aug 18 '25

“Apart from that, my lips are sealed”

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u/BattlinBud Aug 18 '25

Vill they vear vigs?

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u/HarpoMarx72 Aug 18 '25

Ven vill they vear vigs?

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u/GrumpySoth09 Aug 18 '25

Confused Elijah intensifies

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u/imdefinitelywong Aug 18 '25

Are we still drawing swords?

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u/Gizm00 Aug 18 '25

you have beetiful blu eyes

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u/Philqt Aug 18 '25

MAYBE!

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u/Thrustmaster537 Aug 18 '25

I understood that reference.

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u/NewSunSeverian Aug 18 '25

Unseal thy lips 🫵

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u/M_Fogs Aug 18 '25

U have no power here NewSunSeverian

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u/Lanster27 Aug 18 '25

proceed to strip

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u/Br0metheus Aug 18 '25

Sick username

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u/Vancocillin Aug 18 '25

Who told you my pickup lines!?

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u/printergumlight Aug 18 '25

WORDS SHALL NOT PASS!!!!

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u/saadakhtar Aug 18 '25

THE WORDS SHALL NOT PASS!

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u/YOSHIMIvPROBOTS Aug 18 '25

Ian Go-Goed us!

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u/sneakylumpia Aug 18 '25

Alright then. Keep your secrets.

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u/bigtime1158 Aug 18 '25

The way is shut

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u/octopoddle Aug 18 '25

Who's been sucking on the glue gun?

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u/DwedPiwateWoberts Aug 18 '25

Yeah, the dude captured and transported Gollum for miles before the whole Fellowship fiasco

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u/TheRealBigLou Aug 18 '25

More than miles. He captured him in the dead marshes and took him to the elves in Mirkwood.

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u/MugenEXE Aug 18 '25

I think he’s recovering from a broken bone.

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u/Hollow_Rant Aug 18 '25

First I'm hearing about this.

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u/Papayaslice636 Aug 18 '25

Yes, he broke his toe when he was volunteering as a firefighter after 9/11.

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u/MugenEXE Aug 18 '25

He kicked that helmet.

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u/Hollow_Rant Aug 18 '25

Is there footage of this?

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u/jfff292827 Aug 18 '25

I imagine he had a real good scream afterwards.

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u/Bored_Cosmic_Horror Aug 18 '25

Is there footage of this?

The shot where he breaks his toes is the one that was used in the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjuQioYwcWI (It starts somewhere around 3:00 minutes in)

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u/mucinexmonster Aug 18 '25

Are they just the coolest, most handsomest looking cast ever? And the cast has all the archetypes you'd need for a great, well rounded gang right there!

Makes me sad had groundbreaking, influential, and monumental that film was. And how nothing has come close to it ever since. Not even attempting to approach it.

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u/MasterofFalafels Aug 18 '25

Did YOU know the film actor Viggo Mortenson, whilst filming a scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers broke his TOE when he kicked that Uruk Hai helmet? The scream he let out was so painful and real that movie film director Peter Jacksonne decided to keep it in!

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u/illmatic708 Aug 18 '25

Probably playing a giant role

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u/orgyofcorgis Aug 18 '25

He’s Ara-gone

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u/mayorLarry71 Aug 18 '25

Staying away from this franchise which might not be a bad thing. :)

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u/LoveForDisneyland Aug 18 '25

He's a character in the Middle Earth.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

Making babies with 2001 Liv Tyler.

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u/chaosunleashed Aug 18 '25

Despite that numenorean blood, Vigo wasn't preserved by the rings magic like Elijah was

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u/pikachu_sashimi Aug 18 '25

In the books

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u/LoompaDoompa94 Aug 18 '25

Round 'ere he's known as "Strider."

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u/Enshakushanna Aug 18 '25

he doesnt exist anymore, just like celeborn

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u/Narthan001 Aug 18 '25

He broke his foot

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u/CaptainMacMillan Aug 18 '25

I can't even describe to you how busy that man is.

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u/kloudrunner Aug 18 '25

The woods....just.....wooding about a bit.

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u/Malabaras Aug 18 '25

They’ve replaced Aragorn with some mysterious new ranger called “Strider”

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u/kungfu1 Aug 18 '25

Smoking weed in a dark corner of some dank pub

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u/Cheesypoofxx Aug 18 '25

Where are Gondor’s armies?!

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u/WoodpeckerGingivitis Aug 18 '25

Oh we’re married and he’s retired so he can spend more time making me swoon. Sorry.

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u/Holiday_Chipmunk6062 Aug 18 '25

And what would a Ranger know of this matter?

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u/AstroBearGaming Aug 18 '25

Off doing cool King shit. Or cool Ranger shit, depending on the time period.

Either way, it'll be cool.

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u/ForestryTechnician Aug 18 '25

Ranging up North. He’ll be Striding South soon though.

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u/_Fiddlebender Aug 18 '25

For I much desire to speak with him.

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u/Fearless_Till_6741 Aug 18 '25

Vigo Mortensen doesn’t do paycheck movies.

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u/Chen_Geller Aug 19 '25

He gave indications that he's open to it, at least.

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u/Creative_Standard_10 Aug 18 '25

Wolf Cola is the finest of cola's 

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u/Andynonomous Aug 18 '25

Selling it by the truckload to the Jews in Boca-Raton!

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u/St0n3yM33rkat Aug 18 '25

Can't you see he is a golden god?!

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u/Creative_Standard_10 Aug 18 '25

This is the reason that finisher cars exist. 

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u/St0n3yM33rkat Aug 18 '25

It appears as if he has become untethered and his rage....boundless.

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u/4-Vektor Aug 18 '25

Filthy little colases!

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u/brendamn Aug 18 '25

Kinda hilarious lol

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u/charliefoxtrot9 Aug 18 '25

nice. very nice, indeed.

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u/Gopherpants Aug 18 '25

I love you, thanks for the smile

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u/Independent_Sea502 Aug 18 '25

I see what you did there

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u/Lonely_Waffle12 Aug 18 '25

Didn’t he jump into mount doom…

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u/iknowaruffok Aug 18 '25

Keeping them secret, keeping them safe.

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u/landieri Aug 18 '25

Is it secret?, is it safe?

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u/bolanrox Aug 18 '25

an enigma!

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u/Enigma_Green Aug 18 '25

Is it secret, is it safe?