{"id":1342919,"date":"2026-01-10T20:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-legendary-frodo-and-gandalf-are-back-ian-mckellen-and-elijah-wood-will-appear-in-the-new-lord-of-the-rings-franchise\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:36:39","slug":"the-legendary-frodo-and-gandalf-are-back-ian-mckellen-and-elijah-wood-will-appear-in-the-new-lord-of-the-rings-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-legendary-frodo-and-gandalf-are-back-ian-mckellen-and-elijah-wood-will-appear-in-the-new-lord-of-the-rings-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"The legendary Frodo and Gandalf are back: Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood will appear in the new \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The new film in the Lord of the Rings universe will see Gandalf and Frodo reunited, with Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood returning to the roles they are most associated with in the original trilogy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldofreel.com\/blog\/2026\/1\/5\/4conydpagymtez1ixu10vsplstsn6e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World of Reel<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Ian McKellen has officially confirmed his return to the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, with filming set to begin in May.<\/p>\n<p> The actor also revealed that Frodo Baggins will reprise his role in the film, bringing back Elijah Wood, who played the role in the original trilogy, to the franchise.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I can only confirm two roles &#8211; Gandalf and Frodo. The other details remain a secret,&#8221; said Ian McKellen.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, it became known that Viggo Mortensen would not participate in the project and would not return to the role of Aragorn.<\/p>\n<p> The Hunt for Gollum is set during the Fellowship of the Ring, shortly before Frodo leaves the Shire for Rivendell. Gandalf tasks Aragorn with finding Gollum in order to outrun Sauron&#8217;s forces.<\/p>\n<p> The film is conceived as a prequel and at the same time as a bridge between the events of the main trilogy.<\/p>\n<p> Andy Serkis will reprise his role as Gollum and will also direct the film, which is currently scheduled for release on December 17, 2027.<\/p>\n<p> In August 2025, it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-novomu-filmi-za-motyvamy-volodaria-persniv-z-iavytsia-frodo-ta-hendalf\/\">Frodo and Gandalf would appear<\/a> in the new Lord of the Rings film, The Hunt for Gollum. However, it was not confirmed who would play the roles of the famous characters.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new film in the Lord of the Rings universe will see Gandalf and Frodo reunited, with Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood returning to the roles they are most associated with in the original trilogy. This is reported by World of Reel . Ian McKellen has officially confirmed his return to the role of Gandalf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1342912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24160,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1342919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-ru","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}