By most measures, Deep Impact is only America’s second-favourite asteroid movie of 1998, but it’s more than just a couple of months that set it apart from Armageddon.
Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd all played hobbits in the trilogy.
They might have big feet, but with those little legs Hobbits Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins had their work cut out trekking from Bag End to Mount Doom.
Ian McKellen kept a copy of the book on his person to make sure he was fully prepared for any alterations.
Elijah Wood would love to cameo in Amazon's Lord Of The Rings series, but has an issue with its title.
The cast of Lord of the Rings are back together, and transporting themselves back to the days of hairy feet and second breakfasts.
The Fellowship ready to take on a cave troll in ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’. Five of ‘Lord of the Rings’ Fellowship have reunited, with Dominic Monaghan, who played hobbit Merry, sharing a picture of the mini-reunion to social media. Monaghan is joined by fellow hobbits Elijah Wood, who played Frodo and Billy Boyd, who played Merry’s partner in crime Pippin.
Corey Feldman has said that he’d ‘love to name names’ in the growing controversy surround alleged sex abuse of young stars in Hollywood. In a frank interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Feldman, who began his career in the acting business aged just three, he also spoke about his friend Corey Haim, who he says was raped by a prominent figure in the movie business. “People are frustrated, people are angry, they want to know how is this happening and they want answers and they turn to me and they say, 'Why don’t you be a man and stand up and name names and stop hiding and being a coward?’ I have to deal with that, which is not pleasant, especially given the fact that I would love to name names.
Elijah Wood has clarified comments he made about the prevalence of organised child abuse going on in Hollywood. Rather, the remarks came after reading recent articles on the subject and from watching Amy Berg’s 2015 documentary 'An Open Secret’. Wood spoke about the matter after the subject of Jimmy Savile was brought up, saying: “Jesus, it must have been devastating.
Elijah Wood has had it with the personal attacks dealt out to actors by movie critics. The ‘Lord of the Rings’ star was asked in an interview with the Comic Book Resources website about his experiences with criticism, recalling a particularly scathing notice he received from the late Roger Ebert, who slated the 1994 Rob Reiner comedy 'North’, made when Wood was just 14.
It has been 14 long years since the Fellowship first formed and over a decade since the One Ring was destroyed in Mount Doom. How have the cast of ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ trilogy fared in a post-Tolkien world? Perhaps conscious he was gifted the role most likely to typecast him (à la Mark Hamill), Elijah Wood has done a pretty good job of kicking against his Hobbity image.