The Hunt For Gollum Options

[Arilla]

Anyone here hear about this? It was just released May 3rd. Its a short film, forty minutes long, based on a story from The Lord of the Rings appendices. They do quite a good job on it.
http://thehuntforgollum.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

[Hasfusel]

Peter Jackson won't be directing himself due to an argument he had with New Line Cinemas over how much money he got out of the LOTR games and franchise. But he will be helping, and doing some of the writing. It's still just 2010, I think. I don't know if they've even gotten into filming properly yet, since most of the roles are still undecided. I'm sure they wouldn't cast Viggo Mortesen as somebody else, that would be confusing. If he does have a role, it will be as Aragorn. It probably will involve his hunt for Gollum, like in this fan film. One film is about The Hobbit (mainly featuring Ian McKellan and Andy Serkis; no idea who will play Bilbo. It certainly won't be Ian Holme again, he's really old now), while the second will be about what happens next, and should be the attack on this place by Gandalf and the White Council - this would involve Ian McKellan, Christopher Lee as Saruman, Cate Blanchett (hurrah for my second favourite actress) as Galadriel, Hugo Weaving as Elrond, and that guy who played Celeborn in the first film. At least, I hope so; It'll be nice to see all these great actors again, and besides having new ones would be really confusing. I think that if they can't get the original actor for a particular part, they'll just cut that part out. It's Christoper Lee I really hope will get a part, since he said he might be too old to go back to New Zealand. He is another of my favourite actors.