The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Release Date Sets Premiere for December 2027

Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema person announced a The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum merchandise date, scheduling plans to bring Sméagol’s communicative to moviegoers connected December 17, 2027.

The update puts the premiere day much than 2 years retired from today. It’s astatine slightest a one-year hold from the antecedently announced 2026 plan, but that apt hasn’t stopped phantasy fans from plotting retired however they’ll walk Christmas successful 2027.

The Hunt for Gollum is being directed by Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle director, Andy Serkis. He is, of course, besides good known for his relation arsenic an actor, having made a sanction for himself playing the portion of Caesar successful the 2010 Planet of the Apes trilogy and, astir notably, Gollum successful some the archetypal The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and The Hobbit movie trilogy. Now, viewers should beryllium blessed to perceive that Serkis is attached to the movie some down and successful beforehand of the camera.

The motion-capture fable is much than acquainted with what makes Gollum tick, but he’ll beryllium joined by different Middle-earth veterans erstwhile bringing The Hunt for Gollum to the large screen. Included arsenic producers are Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Zane Weiner. At the penning array are Walsh, Boyens, Phoebe Gittins, and Arty Papageorgiou.

As for communicative details, Jackson offered fans a fewer clues regarding what to expect past year. Audiences tin expect to spot beloved characters’ pasts explored, with the filmmaker revealing that 1 extremity is to archer stories that they “didn’t person clip to cover” successful erstwhile installments.

“We truly privation to research [Gollum’s] backstory and delve into those parts of his travel we didn’t person clip to screen successful the earlier films,” Jackson said astatine the time. “It’s excessively soon to cognize who volition transverse his path, but suffice to accidental we volition instrumentality our pb from [original writer J.R.R. Tolkien].”

As Warner Bros. continues its trek into the aboriginal The Lord of the Rings films, The Hunt for Gollum – and perchance different movies – volition apt diagnostic different returning characters. Gandalf is 1 sanction expected to appear, with Boyens telling Empire past October that helium could amusement up successful perchance 2 live-action films. If everything goes according to plan, the iconic wizard whitethorn adjacent beryllium portrayed by archetypal histrion Ian McKellen.

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum is present acceptable to merchandise 3 Decembers from now. It’ll beryllium immoderate clip earlier it’s retired successful theaters, truthful successful the meantime, beryllium definite to cheque retired the latest updates connected Amazon Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which was confirmed to instrumentality for Season 3 earlier this year.

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