Warner Bros. has announced new cast for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum with Jamie Dornan playing Strider –an alias used by Aragorn — and Leo Woodall playing Halvard. (Strider was played in the previous LOTR films by Viggo Mortensen.)
Andy Serkis, who is directing, will reprise his role of Gollum, with Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen returning as Frodo and Gandalf. Lee Pace also is back as Thranduil. Deadline previously reported that Kate Winslet will be joining the film in the role of Marigol.
The news came during the studio’s presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Tuesday afternoon.
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A return to New Line’s Middle-earth franchise, which is based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hunt for Gollum follows Aragorn’s perilous quest to capture Gollum before the creature can reveal the Ring’s location to
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