Ian McKellen — who has performed Gandalf throughout six movies — is open to reprising the Lord of the Rings character.
As one other Lord of the Rings movie nears manufacturing with The Hunt of Gollum, we’re nonetheless left questioning who from Peter Jackson’s authentic trilogy will return. By and huge, most have been open to it. However at 85 and 10 years faraway from Gandalf, is Ian McKellen nonetheless in search of it, in search of it? Or is it extra the followers whose ideas are bent on it?
Talking with the UK’s Huge Subject (through Deadline), Ian McKellen mentioned that he’s conscious of the upcoming movie however there are too many mysteries surrounding it for him to substantiate or deny. As McKellen put it, “I’ve just been told there are going to be more films and Gandalf will be involved and they hope that I’ll be playing him. When? I don’t know. What the script is? It’s not written yet. So they better be quick!”
Fast is correct if Andy Serkis – who’s taking on directing duties from Peter Jackson – and his crew wish to nab Ian McKellen for Gandalf. McKellen himself has been open to reprising the character however added a grim twist by saying, “If I’m alive.” The next week he took an unlucky fall on stage whereas performing in Participant Kings.
That state of affairs precipitated McKellen to ponder his destiny instantly. As he remembered in a separate interview, “It’s emotionally that I’ve got some residue that I’ve got to deal with. I said to myself as I tripped and slid off the stage, ‘This is the end’. These were the words in my mind, ‘This is the end. ‘And apparently I shouted out, ‘My neck is broken, I’m dying.’ I don’t remember saying that, so there was a lot going on in my head as the body responded to the fall.”
As Gandalf, Ian McKellen has been a fan favourite within the Lord of the Rings movies, not solely taking part in him within the first trilogy – incomes an Oscar nomination for The Fellowship of the Ring – but in addition in The Hobbit movies: An Sudden Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the 5 Armies.
Do you suppose Ian McKellen nonetheless has it in him for one more go as Gandalf? How would that improve The Hunt for Gollum?
