In 2011, Toby advised Leisure Weekly, “Within the U.S. you’ll contract actors for seven seasons — we don’t have the funds to do this. So each time we begin a brand new collection, we’ve got to renegotiate with the actors and see whom we’ve got left. Certain sufficient, Peter Jackson got here alongside and noticed Aidan and whisked him away to New Zealand.
The factor is, I used to be form of making ready myself for that on Collection 2 after I wrote the sequence the place he kills all these individuals on the practice. I at all times knew that will finally be the explanation for the character’s exit, whether or not it occurred on the finish of Collection 3 or 33.”
The script explored different doable endings for his character, however finally, Aidan felt loss of life was the proper selection.
Toby stated, “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 acceptable ending for the character.”