Dominic Monaghan reveals his big plans for next 'Lord of the Rings' film

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00:00I've seen Rings of Power, obviously.

00:02It's not necessarily something that I watch generally.

00:05We did lend our support.

00:06Myself, Elijah, Sean, and Billy lent our support

00:09to kind of say to people,

00:12listen, if it's not your type of show

00:14and you want to protect the, you know,

00:18Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings franchise,

00:22that's fine.

00:23You can do that.

00:24You don't have to watch it

00:25and you can support the Peter Jackson trilogy

00:27as much as you want.

00:28And what we were trying to get behind was

00:30that is not a permission for you to now spew hate

00:34towards these new actors or these new filmmakers.

00:38There is room in Middle Earth for everyone.

00:41And if someone wants to come at it from a different angle

00:43and they want to do an animated version

00:45or they want to do a German version

00:47or they want to do Lord of the Rings in space

00:49or any of these things, just let people do it.

00:52And if you don't like it, that's fine.

00:54You don't like it.

00:55That is not permission for you to shout and scream

00:58and rant and rave and all that kind of stuff.

00:59What I will say about the Peter Jackson trilogy,

01:04which I say very often to people,

01:08is it's the only project that I've done

01:10in my entire career,

01:13which I've been lucky enough to do some other

01:15relatively well-known pieces of work,

01:18where it gets stronger and stronger

01:20the further that I get away from it.

01:21Everything else fades, which is really interesting.

01:24And big projects have faded over the years.

01:27You know, Star Wars fades.

01:28X-Men fades.

01:30Lost fades.

01:31You can feel it fading.

01:32And maybe they bring it back in some other way

01:34and it adds a little bit of a moment.

01:35But it's gradually fading over time.

01:39Pete Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy

01:40went from being, when it came out in the cinema,

01:43went from being a great film that people seem to like

01:46to a relatively quick kind of modern classic,

01:50to a classic, to an out-and-out Stonewall

01:53classic piece of benchmark cinema.

01:56And being involved in something like that

01:59kind of keeps you in this very exalted,

02:03very fortunate position of knowing

02:07that you're lucky enough to be part of

02:10the history of that medium.

02:13At some point when you're telling the story of cinema,

02:15at some point you have to put a pin

02:17in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy

02:20and say, and then this happened, you know?

02:22And to be involved in something like that

02:23is just an actor's dream come true.

02:25I mean, would you ever return as Mary

02:27in some kind of capacity?

02:29Has there ever been any talks at all?

02:32There's always been talks,

02:33because obviously, you know,

02:34I'm still super tight with Pete Jackson

02:36and his team.

02:38And I think I will probably go to New Zealand

02:41next year when they are filming

02:44The Hunt for Garland,

02:45which obviously my great friend Andy Serkis

02:47is going to star in and direct in.

02:49There's going to be, I think,

02:50some other people from Lord of the Rings

02:52going down there too.

02:54I would like to just be on set

02:55just to lend support to Andy

02:58and say hello to people.

03:00I think that that particular story

03:03takes place at a time where,

03:06if we're just talking about my character,

03:08Mary isn't necessarily involved

03:10in anything super important.

03:12I think he's probably still enjoying pints of beer

03:17in the local pub

03:19and being a young man growing up in the Shire,

03:22you know.

03:23So we have talked about stuff.

03:26And I think, you know, who knows?

03:28I think, to be honest,

03:30I think everyone in the Lord of the Rings gang,

03:33the Pete Jackson Lord of the Rings gang,

03:34is putting a lot of faith behind

03:36this Gollum film

03:39in the hopes that it shows

03:40that there's an appetite

03:41for people to want more Lord of the Rings stuff.

03:43And if that happens

03:44and the film is successful

03:45and people seem to have voted

03:47with their feet to say,

03:49we would like to consistently

03:50go back to Middle Earth,

03:52I wouldn't be surprised

03:53if there's some Hobbit stories to tell.

03:56It's cozy, right?

03:57Why wouldn't you want some cozy stories?

03:59And I know you can't say much,

04:01but of course, being on set,

04:03that could be kind of, you know,

04:05maybe you could be on screen for it.

04:09Honestly, at this point,

04:11that set visit,

04:12hand on my heart,

04:13would be an opportunity

04:15to go and see some crew members

04:17that are obviously working

04:18on the Rings trilogy,

04:20see Andy,

04:22be around,

04:23maybe be there over a couple of weekends

04:25where we have some dinners.

04:26And, you know,

04:27because you're going to have cast members

04:28and crew members

04:29that are going to start

04:31to get exhausted from the schedule

04:33and maybe might benefit

04:35from a little bit of moral support

04:38and people being there.

04:39So it's honestly, for me,

04:41an opportunity to go down to New Zealand,

04:43hopefully when the weather's still good,

04:44see some friends,

04:46have some fun.

04:47And listen, you know,

04:48if Andy says to me,

04:50you know,

04:51put on a floppy hat

04:52and a cape

04:54and go stand 300 feet over there

04:56and we'll just see

04:57a blurry figure in the distance,

04:59you know, like,

04:59I think famously Prince

05:00played the body in Fargo.

05:02Did you know that piece of movie history?

05:04So, you know,

05:05if Andy's like,

05:06look, you can go do something

05:07in the background,

05:08then of course, maybe.

05:09But at this point,

05:10it's just an opportunity

05:11to go see friends.

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