Warner Bros. to Release First New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie ‘The Hunt for Gollum’ in 2026, Peter Jackson to Produce and Andy Serkis to Direct
Warner Bros. to Release First New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie ‘The Hunt for Gollum’ in 2026, Peter Jackson to Produce and Andy Serkis to Direct
Warner Bros. will release its first new 'Lord of the Rings' movie in 2026. Andy Serkis will direct 'The Hunt for Gollum,' while Peter Jackson produces.
Why?
$$$
The insane, generation defining success of the Gollum game made that inevitable
Lord of the Rings will start entering the public domain in 2044, so all the rights holders are going to squeeze the IP as much as they can over the next twenty years.
They saw shitty Rings of Power did well.
Sweet shiny goldses precious!
I appreciate that the two people most invested in doing a good job are the ones making it, but I do not have high hopes. I simply don't see any way to make this good without completely ruining Gollum.
Why the fuck would I want to watch that? There’s plenty of stories to tell in middle earth, but this just seems like scraping the bottom of the barrel for no reason in particular.
Because this movie isn’t for fans of Lord of the Rings. That wouldn’t make enough money. But even if you’ve never watched them, read them, or know anything about it, everyone knows Gollum.
stupid fat hobbits ruinsed it
First the Gollum video game, and now his very own movie. They're trying real hard to ruin the character.
I think the studios and Peter Jackson are engaged in a protracted legal battle over the rights to the IP, and it's complicated. But I bet that they have to keep making films to retain the rights, and Gollum is a LotR character that is not in the Similarion or other unpublished writings, and the character was a cultural phenomenon.
There's no reason to think Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis will make something as bad as the Gollum videogame.
It'll be a trilogy with multiple love angles and a climactic battle.
I hope you mean multiple angles of Gollum making love.
There better be a scene where Gollum gets drunk, slides the ring onto his dick, then runs around screaming "my preciouses are gone!" for like ten minutes.
Obviously.
please no
Silmarilion continues to be untouchable it seems :(
Yikes
Yeeeeahhh...
Oh this is going to suck