It’s been 21 years since Elijah Wood last trekked the wilds of New Zealand, but somehow he found himself doing it again — under very different circumstances.
In the newly released comedy adventure film Bookworm, Wood plays Strawn Wise, an unsuccessful magician and absent father of the bookish young Mildred (Nell Fisher). Strawn flies to New Zealand to meet her for the first time after an accident puts Mildred’s mother into a coma, and finds himself unwittingly pulled into Mildred’s quest to find the mythical Canterbury panther, despite being woefully unequipped for the trek.
