Orlando Bloom may be starring in an Amazon Prime Original series (Victorian fantasy drama Carnival Row), but don’t expect him to cameo in Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings TV show.
The British actor, who got his big break starring as Legolas Greenleaf in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy (and subsequently reprised the role in Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy a decade later), recalled that 20 years ago when they were in the midst of filming the fantasy epic, Jackson predicted that someone would someday try and remake the story based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal novels, with the cast insisting it would never happen. “Now here I am working for Amazon and they’re remaking it,” Bloom laughed, appearing alongside Carnival Row costar Cara Delevingne, creator Travis Beacham, and showrunner Marc Guggenheim at Amazon’s Television Critics Association press tour.
Source: IGN.com Orlando Bloom Talks Potential Cameo in Amazon's Lord of the Rings Show