In 2011, Toby instructed Leisure Weekly, “Within the U.S. you’ll contract actors for seven seasons — we don’t have the funds to try this. So each time we begin a brand new collection, we have now to renegotiate with the actors and see whom we have now left. Positive sufficient, Peter Jackson got here alongside and noticed Aidan and whisked him away to New Zealand.
The factor is, I used to be sort of getting ready myself for that on Sequence 2 once I wrote the sequence the place he kills all these folks on the practice. I at all times knew that might in the end be the explanation for the character’s exit, whether or not it occurred on the finish of Sequence 3 or 33.”
The script explored different potential endings for his character, however in the end, Aidan felt dying was the right alternative.
Toby mentioned, “As a matter of truth, it was actually Aidan who pushed for Mitchell to be killed, as a result of he thought that was the applicable ending for the character.”
