Orlando Bloom Thinks He is Too Outdated to Return as Legolas in Lord of the Rings Collection

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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV present is off and operating, and it simply so occurs that one Orlando Bloom can be selling an Amazon present on the similar time. 

Bloom stars in Carnival Row alongside Cara Delevingne as a human detective in a fantasy present about magical creatures (Delevingne performs a faerie) struggling to coexist with people, so he clearly hasn’t misplaced curiosity on the planet of fantasy storytelling since he final performed Legolas in 2014’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the 5 Armies. 

Naturally a reporter on the present’s TV Critics Affiliation summer time tour panel requested if he’d be concerned with collaborating in Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings sequence, and that is when Bloom mentioned this: “I imply, I like to consider myself as ageless, however I do not know the place I would slot in that world…They’ve most likely bought a 19 year-old child who’s taking part in that character now.” 

Cue Cara Delevingne, standing in for all of us: “No! No!” 

Bloom recalled a time on set with Peter Jackson “20 years in the past now, wouldn’t it be?” after they joked collectively about somebody, sometime desirous to remake Lord of the Rings. 

“‘By no means gonna occur!'” they mentioned again then. 

“Now right here I’m working for Amazon they usually’re redoing it,” he mentioned. “It is nice. I imply, look, I do not know the way they will method it. I have never had any conversations about that, however I really feel like I’ve achieved every little thing…” 

In the event you ask us, Bloom is definitely pretty ageless and will simply make use of some CGI to play a good youthful Legolas if he needed to. 

We do not truly but know a lot concerning the Amazon sequence and if Legolas will even seem, however the firm did announce at present that the present shall be led by showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, who be a part of director J.A. Bayona and a artistic workforce stuffed with producers from exhibits like Breaking Dangerous, Sport of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, Stranger Issues, and extra. 

The present shall be set in Center-earth and can discover “new storylines previous J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring.” 

For now, you may see Bloom in Carnival Row when it debuts on August 30 on Amazon Prime.