The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, the brand new LOTR film that may function Andy Serkis as each its star and director, will premiere in theaters on December seventeenth, 2027, Deadline reports.
Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens, who had been all key to the unique movie trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy, will probably be producing the film, Deadline says. Walsh and Boyens will write the screenplay. That workforce will even be producing a second new LOTR film, however there hasn’t been a director introduced for that movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Hunt for Gollum was initially introduced by Warner Bros. Discovery final yr, with WBD CEO David Zaslav saying that it had an anticipated 2026 launch date. (A press launch at the time famous that the title is a working title.) The brand new film follows 2024’s Lord of the Rings anime movie, The Conflict of the Rohirrim. And Amazon is at the moment engaged on a 3rd season of its Lord of the Rings collection, The Rings of Energy.