"Now in his 80s, Ian McKellen appears to have taken a strategically sedentary route for his appearance as Gandalf the Grey in the next year's Lord of the Rings weird-quel The Hunt for Gollum. You've probably heard about this thing: it's the new movie that's based on bits and pieces of JRR Tolkien's esteemed high-fantasy epic that were only mentioned in passing during the three original three-hour movies, and didn't get much more of a mention in the extended cuts that came out later."
"According to McKellen, Aragorn will take charge of the quest to find Gollum, while Gandalf will operate more like a wizardly mission controller. The script is designed to appeal to people who like Lord of the Rings, McKellen told the Times. It's an adventure story, Aragorn trying to find Gollum with Gandalf directing operations from the sidelines. So it seems the wizard will be putting his feet up while his Numenorean pal does most of the heavy lifting."
Ian McKellen will portray Gandalf the Grey in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, with the film focusing on Aragorn's search for Gollum while Gandalf coordinates from afar. The movie adapts briefly mentioned material from J.R.R. Tolkien's novels about decades-long efforts to locate Smeagol/Gollum after Bilbo's acquisition of the One Ring. The screenplay positions Aragorn as the active tracker and Gandalf as a wizardly mission controller. TheOneRing.net published an alleged official synopsis describing young Smeagol's early obsession with trinkets and his eventual compelled search for the Ring, setting up consequences for Middle-earth.
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