Elijah Wood hopes the new The Lord of the Rings movies are being made for the love of J. R. R. Tolkien’s books rather the need to “develop a lot of money”.
In February, Warner Bros. executives offered that the studio will be making “a pair of” films in step with the books by Tolkien, and Wood, who performed Frodo Baggins in the celebrated trilogy, has admitted he was once stunned by the news.
“I am fascinated and I am inflamed. I’m hoping or now now not it’s correct. I am stunned – I don’t know why I am stunned because, of direction there would be extra movies,” he informed GQ.
Wood hopes that the workforce don’t appear to be being motivated entirely by money and has a keenness for Tolkien’s work, love director Peter Jackson did when he made his trilogy.
“Clearly at the core of that, is a necessity to develop a lot of money. It be now now not that a bunch of executives are love, ‘Let’s develop in actual fact superior art,'” Wood persevered. “And, again, now now not begrudging any one because, of direction, it’s commerce. But extensive art can attain from commerce. So those two issues are now now not mutually weird.
“But Lord of the Rings did now not attain out of that self-discipline. It came out of a keenness for these books and fervent to hunt them realized. And I’m hoping that that’s in the raze what will power all the issues forward with irrespective of these subsequent movies are. I correct hope that or now now not it’s the same motivating advise at its core, every time they hire a screenwriter and a filmmaker – that it’s with reverence for Tolkien’s material and enthusiasm to web it.”
Wood had the starring feature in Jackson’s movies – 2001’s The Fellowship of the Ring, 2002’s The Two Towers, and 2003’s The Return of the King.
No director has been hooked as much as the new films yet, then again, Jackson is being saved “in the loop” about their advise.