Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Will Be 'Surprising' but 'Very Much Part of the Lore and Feel' of Peter Jackson's Trilogy, Andy Serkis Says

Andy Serkis has concisely commented connected Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, saying it volition beryllium “surprising” for fans, but with a “sensibility” that volition consciousness adjacent to Peter Jackson’s beloved trilogy.

Serkis volition nonstop and prima successful The Hunt for Gollum, owed retired December 17, 2027, reprising the relation that made him a household name. Serkis played Gollum crossed Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy arsenic good arsenic The Hobbit movie trilogy, and is acceptable to instrumentality to the quality implicit a decennary aft The Battle of the Five Armies came out. This time, we’ll get to spot what Gollum was up to successful the years betwixt The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Speaking to Collider portion promoting his caller film, Animal Farm, Serkis touched connected the code fans tin expect from The Hunt for Gollum, and issued an update connected erstwhile filming volition begin.

“We're precise aboriginal connected successful the process,” helium said. “We've been talking astir the movie implicit the people of the past year. We’re astir to commencement a play of prep successful the adjacent fewer months oregon so. We volition beryllium shooting successful the aboriginal to mid-part of adjacent year, I guess, and past it'll beryllium arsenic agelong arsenic it takes to shoot, which — it's a sizable movie — each acceptable for a December 2027 release.

“I'm incredibly excited to spell backmost and enactment with my friends and household successful New Zealand and really bash thing which is, I think, going to beryllium surprising, and yet precise overmuch portion of the lore and the consciousness of the trilogy. The sensibility of it volition feel, I think, adjacent to that, and yet we're investigating successful greater extent the quality formerly known arsenic Smeagol, but mostly known arsenic Gollum.”

Serkis' comments suggest The Hunt for Gollum volition beryllium developed with The Lord of the Rings trilogy firmly successful mind, and possibly confirms it volition beryllium mindful of the lore established by those films. What we bash cognize is that it's acceptable to spot a fig of celebrated faces return, including Gandalf. The 86-year-old Sir Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf successful The Lord of the Rings, has said he'd beryllium unfastened to returning arsenic the wizard truthful agelong arsenic property didn't drawback up to him. Aragorn histrion Viggo Mortensen is besides unfastened to returning.

Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is successful information the archetypal of 2 caller Lord of the Rings diagnostic films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based connected J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, arsenic the institution aims to marque much of the franchise.

Amazon has of people kept the Lord of the Rings occurrence burning with its Prime Video bid The Rings of Power. Season 3 is successful the works. Elsewhere successful Tolkien's satellite sits The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, the animated movie that came retired successful December.

Image credit: Warner Bros.

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