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"Sean Bean has discussed his absence from The Hobbit. The actor will not reprise his Lord of the Rings role as Boromir in the new trilogy, which is set some 60 years prior. Despite the time shift, several of Bean&amp;#039;s Rings co-stars including Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen will appear.  &amp;quot;[My character] wasn&amp;#039;t around at that time, in The Hobbit, and I don&amp;#039;t know if Viggo [Mortensen] as Aragorn was,&amp;quot; Bean told Digital Spy.  &amp;quot;And they&amp;#039;re sticklers for getting things absolutely right and trying to faithfully translate the book, so they&amp;#039;re not likely to stick me or Aragorn in there just for the sake of it.&amp;quot; He went on to lament the fact that he is unlikely ever to return to the franchise, given that Boromir wasn&amp;#039;t alive during The Hobbit&amp;#039;s timeframe and died during The Fellowship of the Ring.  Director Peter Jackson recently discussed the differences between The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, promising &amp;quot;a different tone&amp;quot; for the new franchise.  McKellen has admitted that he almost turned down the chance to reprise the role of Gandalf. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released on December 14.  Watch a trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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