There’s probably no reason for panic yet, but Viggo Mortensen thought you might want to know that nobody has talked to him about being in Guillermo del Toro’s new set of Lord of the Rings films. MTV asked him what was up with those Hobbit movies and he said, “I haven’t heard anything… I met [Guillermo] once years ago, but haven’t talked to him since.”

They’re still in the scriptwriting stage, so there may be no reason to talk to him yet. Though if you’re the production company in charge of this thing you might want to start thinking about getting these actors under some sort of contract before they get too busy doing something else. In the case of Mortensen though, they probably have plenty of time to spare in that regard. Odds are he won’t be in the first movie anyway, since it’s supposed to stick fairly closely to “The Hobbit” novel, in which his character of Aragorn makes no appearance. If there’s a place for Aragorn, it’ll be in the second movie which is still a long, long, long way off.

That probably explains why people like Ian McKellan, who would appear as Gandalf in the very first movie, has been running around telling everyone that he’s already in. They’d have to get him locked up first. The good news is that Viggo still seems keen to do it. He affirms, “Obviously,” he said. “I would rather have the chance to play that role myself since I originated it on film than have someone else do it.”