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Ian McKellen revealed if he can be inquisitive about returning to the Lord of the Rings franchise as Gandalf.

Should you missed it, earlier this yr it was introduced {that a} new film known as The Hunt for Gollum was within the works and anticipated to premiere in 2026.

Andy Serkis, who performed Gollum within the unique collection, will return for the film. Ought to we count on to see Ian in character once more? He weighed in throughout a latest interview.

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Chatting with The Occasions, Ian mentioned that he’d heard “stirrings in Tolkien land” and experiences that Gandalf could be featured within the new film.

“However there is no such thing as a script, there is no such thing as a supply, there is no such thing as a plan,” he mentioned. Regardless of that, Ian appears very prepared to return, with one caveat: “If I’m alive.”

Ian final performed the position a decade in the past within the prequel film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Elsewhere within the interview he addressed his mortality, saying, “You might be conscious that this life doesn’t go on for ever.”

“If you wish to know that you’re mortal you simply have to have a look at your tackle ebook,” he says. “And so when a script comes by way of, or the trace of a suggestion, you suppose, ‘This could be my final job. No. I’m not doing that,’” he mentioned.

One other fashionable Lord of the Rings star revealed if he had been in talks to return the franchise.

Ian revealed two different main stars that had been provided the position of Gandalf earlier than he accepted.