WB. to release 'Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum' in 2026, currently in early development. Peter Jackson will produce. Andy Serkis at the helm
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I trust PJ, he open heartedly admitted what went wrong with The Hobbit so no need to beat the dead horse. After witnessing certain gargantuan failure which he was not involved with I'm cool with anything coming from PJ's team. This one feels like a safer first step I hope it will be the first of many great projects.
Define "new batch of LotR films?" To announce this during an "earnings call" and detail it as "a significant opportunity for theatrical business." I'm thinking it's a safe guess that WB is about to run LotR into the ground like Disney did with Star Wars and the MCU. Oh well.
These companies are obsessed with the idea of these IPs being "always on" and it's only going to get worse from here.
Also, I can't think of a better title right now but the current title of this film kinda sucks.
Hey wait a minute...
I saw a copy that in a bootleg DVD store I went to like 10 years ago and though it was some low effort Hong Kong bootleg or whatever lol.
I'm cautiously optimistic considering the talent involved. The dearth of actual Tolkien writngs that this wil be based on is a concern and may end up been glorified fan-fiction. The casting decisions will be key as well having an excellent script and filming locations.
The title has already been done in 2009 with the fanmade film, which is actually quite respected in the Tolkien community.
The Hunt for Gollum - Wikipedia
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I saw a copy that in a bootleg DVD store I went to like 10 years ago and though it was some low effort Hong Kong bootleg or whatever lol.
Wow..
Guess they didn't want that fan film around anymore since they decided to announce this movie.
Wow..
Guess they didn't want that fan film around anymore since they decided to announce this movie.
now that sure is a move, kinda feels like this will make a lot more people discover the film
Going by the title, it would be set during the trilogy. Between Gandalf giving Bilbo the side-eye for not yet having left The Ring to Frodo and him coming back years later to throw the ring into Frodo's fireplace to get the final confirmation that it IS The One Ring.
In the books that's something like 20 years. Gandalf spends those years trying to find Gollum so he can get him to tell how and where he got The Ring. Aragorn helps him find Gollum. This is also the same timeframe as the conflict with Dol Guldur and the sorcerer which later turns out to have been Sauron in hiding.
I know Discovery/WB is in belt tightening mode so I have a great suggestion David Zaslav, you can save a TON of money if you make this movie just using the video game Gollum. Its extremely highly rated by critics and fans (trust me, you don't need to go look it up) and you will get cinematic masterpieces like this if you piece together a 2 hour movie just capturing video from the game
I'm cautiously optimistic. It's good that Jackson is just one of the producers this time around, like he originally wanted for The Hobbit.
I hope they at least recast Gandalf. Ian is too old to do any more physically demanding role. As for Aragorn, they will need a lot of makeup to make him look as young as he did in 1999-2000.
I hope they at least recast Gandalf. Ian is too old to do any more physically demanding role. As for Aragorn, they will need a lot of makeup to make him look as young as he did in 1999-2000.
There's probably better and more substantial ideas to make into a movie.
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Hunt for Gollum? The fuck? Who is asking for more about Gollum? Give us an animated version of the 1st age. I want the fall of gondolin!
Why the wishy washy thing from the estate? Either go in on adaptations or don't bother.😤
Why use actors when you can use CG stand-ins with soundalike voice actors? 🤪
Different companies have different rights to various aspects of Tolkien's work. The estate has always been very protective of that sort of thing. They can't use anything they don't already have access to. Warner Brothers has access to film rights of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. My understanding of the situation (and it is admittedly a very messy situation) is that if it's not derived from those two books, they cannot use it. So they don't have access to the First or Second Age content that Amazon does for their TV Show rights, for example. That's why all the movies coming out are tied in some way to something we've seen before, that's legally all they can really do.
Just reiterating on this again. The Hunt for Gollum is an Aragorn story, not much of a gollum story.
Probably because Gollum is the closest thing Lord of the Rings has to a marketable mascot.
Everyone has some idea of what Gollum is, whether they've read/seen LotR or not.
You may think so, but with Andy Serkis writing and directing it, maybe it'll become a Gollum story after all. The Hobbit isn't supposed to be a war epic either.
Eh, I guess I'll watch it, but I could do without.
As far as I know, War of the Rohirrim isn't CG animated, but rather traditional 2D animation.
That is correct. But we have yet to see anything from the film at all. I think they showed a couple of art boards for it and that's it.
The producer is known to be a big fan of traditional anime production and works with the Japanese studios closely on other projects though, so I'm trying to be hopeful.
Stealing this lolfound him
edit: curse you Voytek!!!
I for one am super pumped! The fact that the original team is on bord makes me very positive about this, also it's not a direct "sequel" or whatever, so what can go wrong? Even if the movie's weak like the majority of Hobbit movies, it won't "destroy the franchise" or anyone's love for the original. And if it's good, then hey, more LOTR stuff!
Very excited!
Gollum is probably the one character you will get the least of in this movie. It's going to be an Aragorn road-trip movie. The movie is about finding Gollum.
I don't know what that poster was on about. They were VERY well received.
If the RoP season 2 leaks were real, you will be seeing more of him than you ever wanted.
They DEFINITELY aren't real though, there's no way anyone in their right mind would write a scenario where Morgoth and Ungoliant were turned into Bombadil and Goldberry as punishment for destroying the two trees
Do you really believe that Andy Serkis will write, direct, and star in a movie with his character named in the title, and not make it about Gollum?
Maybe the original story but I can guarantee the film will be centered on Gollum.
Totally possible. "Star" doesn't neccessarily mean "protagonist". It just means he's in it. He happens to be the titular character too, but the main character will most likely be Aragorn. He will after all be the one hunting Gollum.
