Elijah Wood Doesn’t Want Anyone Else Playing Frodo “As Long as I’m Alive and Able”

To what degree the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum will be a full LOTR cast reunion is unclear. However, with Ian McKellen confirming he’ll be back as Gandalf for director Andy Serkis’s addition to the Middle-earth canon, all his former co-stars are now getting the question about their involvement. In a new interview with the London Times, Elijah Wood played it somewhat coy, but did say, “There is a good chance. I’m not able to officially say anything until it’s announced, but I will say I’m thrilled with the prospect of another film.”

Wood also echoed a statement that McKellen had made about not wanting to see anyone else inhabit the role he’d previously defined across Peter Jackson’s three-film epic. “I certainly wouldn’t want anybody else to play Frodo either as long as I’m alive and able,” he told the Times. “It’s always a little nerve-racking when people talk about new movies for a world like Middle-earth. Everyone gets a little protective and hopes it retains its level of integrity, but this story is fun, thrilling. There is a genuine feeling of getting the band back together.”

Beyond a cameo in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Wood hasn’t set foot in Middle-Earth in years; he plays a shady lawyer in his next movie, the horror comedy sequel Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. He also recently appeared in the remake of The Toxic Avenger, alongside Peter Dinklage, and the deranged Stephen King adaptation The Monkey. For more, find out where The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring landed on our recent list of the Best Movies of 2001.