Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum director and star Andy Serkis has mentioned the upcoming movie might characteristic characters from different movies reminiscent of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit.
As reported by Popverse, Gollum actor Serkis mentioned at ACE Superhero Comic Con 2024 that “there could also be characters that we acknowledge” in The Hunt for Gollum, which is seemingly a working title for the 2026 movie.
“It’s going to very a lot be the world of Middle-earth in response to Gollum’s expertise of it,” Serkis mentioned. “It is so early, it could be unfair to decide to something at this level. But I’ll say that it is going to be a deep dive the place we examine Gollum’s character. There could also be characters that we acknowledge that may be coming again. I’m not going to say who.”
Serkis not revealing who might return is probably going as a result of he would not know, as primarily based on feedback from The Hunt for Gollum co-writer and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit triogies director Peter Jackson, the creators haven’t got a narrative collectively but.
“We actually wish to discover his backstory and delve into these components of his journey we didn’t have time to cowl within the earlier movies,” Jackson mentioned on the time. “It’s too quickly to know who will cross his path, however suffice to say we are going to take our lead from [original author J.R.R. Tolkien].”
The Hunt for Gollum was introduced on May 9, 2024 when an early script was being labored on, however Serkis mentioned discussions solely started round eight months in the past, that means roughly in October 2023.
“They have been saying, ‘Andy we actually wish to reinvigorate Middle-earth. There are so many contemporary tales that we wish to get entangled with. We wish to launch this new wave by taking us again into the world of Gollum.’ They requested me to direct,” Serkis mentioned. “This is a dream come true, to work with the individuals I like working with in a rustic I like working in.”
Comments about reinvigorating Middle-earth are a tad extra sentimental than the language utilized by those that personal the Lord of the Rings franchise. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslaz mentioned, for instance, that The Lord of the Rings is a “largely underused” franchise that his firm is “onerous at work fixing.” CEO of The Lord of the Rings proprietor Embracer Group Lars Wingefors, in the meantime, mentioned the corporate must be “exploiting Lord of the Rings in a really important style” on the online game entrance.
Regardless, each 65-year-old Aragorn actor Viggo Mortensen and 85-year-old Gandalf actor Ian McKellen are open to returning to the franchise. The former will solely star in The Hunt for Gollum if it is sensible for him and his character, nonetheless, whereas the latter, quite morbidly, mentioned he’d do it if he was nonetheless alive.
The Lord of the Rings was as soon as a standalone trilogy however the canonical movie universe is slowly however certainly increasing, first by The Hobbit Trilogy however now by a number of different movies and TV exhibits.
Amazon has continued the franchise with its The Rings of Power TV present, Season 1 of which launched in 2022 on Prime Video. Season 2 is ready to premiere on August 29, 2024 and, in February 2024, showrunners Patrick McKay and JD Payne prolonged their partnership with Amazon and signed a brand new three-year take care of the corporate to kick off early work on Season 3.
Elsewhere in Tolkien’s world sits The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, an animated movie set to inform the story behind the fortress of Helm’s Deep and the mighty King of Rohan Helm Hammerhand when it premieres on December 13, 2024.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
