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Okay, so according to PJ and GDT, they'll be vigorously pursuing any LOTR actors whose characters would appear in The Hobbit and what they're calling Film 2.
That means they'd need:
Ian Holm - Bilbo (But probably not as young Bilbo. Maybe older in Film 2?)
Ian McKellen - Gandalf
Andy Serkis - Gollum
and
Hugo Weaving - Elrond
Those four are definitely in the book of The Hobbit. Then some possibilities for Film 2:
Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn
Orlando Bloom - Legolas
Liv Tyler - Arwen
Cate Blanchett - Galadriel
Christopher Lee - Saruman
Elijah Wood - Frodo
Sean Astin - Sam
Those are the only characters I can think of that are either in the storyline as written by Tolkien, or could easily fit into it for the films. Anybody I'm missing? Who else in on the White Council besides the two wizards, Elrond and Galadriel?
We know from PJ that Ian M., Andy and Viggo have been approached. Liv and Elijah have both been quoted as saying they'd run to NZ in a heartbeat if asked. I'm pretty sure the rest of them would be into it as well. The only doubts are Christopher, who might be too old to partake anymore, and possibly Hugo and Orlando, neither of whom seem terribly attached to the Tolkien thing. But PJ and GDT said they don't want to recast anybody, and that if there were any scheduling conflicts, the writing would "go in another direction", which I took to mean the character would simply be cut out. That would be easy with, say, Legolas, but someone like Elrond would have to be recast, since you really can't cut him out of the story.
It'll be interesting to see how this develops...
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