With Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom both reprising their roles in the upcoming movie the Hobbit I’d still held out hope for my favorite ranger from the north. Viggo Mortensen happened to be quizzed about whether the long living Aragorn may make an appearance while promoting A Dangerous Method he offered this:
Source: Filmonic
Has Peter Jackson asked you to return to Middle Earth in the Hobbit movie in any capacity?
Mortensen: At one point, the producers asked if I would do it and I said sure if Aragorn is supposed to be in the bridge story because he’s not in The Hobbit. I would rather do it than see someone else do it, but I’ve never been asked and they’re shooting the movie. I’m not in it unless it there is some last-minute plan they have, but I thought I would have heard of it by now. Orlando Bloom and Cate Blanchett shot something, but they’re elves and don’t change as rapidly. As you know, Aragorn is half elf and also lives a couple hundred years or more and he could be in a bridge, but I have to assume it isn’t going to happen. That was an important period in my life and I will always be grateful that the trilogy was so successful and gave me a lot of new opportunities. I never would have gotten A History of Violence, no matter how much David wanted me, had it not been for my newfound notoriety.
So he was certainly willing but if it doesn’t “fit” in the movie he doesn’t want to force the issue. I can respect that. I’d hoped to see Aragorn again in The Hobbit but I’m sure that it’s all for the best to just go with what’s natural rather than shoe-horning each and every cast member from the Lord of the Rings. I guess I’ll just have to hunt down the extended edition Blu Ray’s of the Lord of the Rings on Black Friday.
