A few months after the name release of the animated film The Lord of the Rings: The Rohirrim WarWarner Bros. Discovery has just announced the news that fans no longer expected: the release date of the next live-action film produced by Peter Jackson. We tell you everything!
The Lord of the Rings: finally an release date for the next film
To get out of the financial rut, Warner Bros Discovery has repeatedly announced his desire to focus on his most promising licenses: Game of Thrones, Harry PotterDC Comics et The Lord of the Rings. While Amazon Prime Video is floor in the third season of his series The Lord of the Rings: the rings of power, The Hollywood major intends to recall the powerful heritage of the cult trilogy of Peter Jackson which rekindled the public’s interest in fantasy in the early 2000s. In 2024, Warner announced with great fanfare the construction of two films in real shots The Lord of the Rings produced by Peter Jackson, and the first, directed by the British director Andy Serkis, would be called The Hunt for Gollum.
First announced for 2026, the film had been shifted on an unknown date. If The resounding failure at the box office of the animated film The Lord of the Rings: The Rohirrim War From Kenji Kamiyama may have been able to discourage some fans from diving back into midfielderlet’s not forget that it was a low -cost film and produced in speed so as not to lose the rights of the license, in accordance with the deal signed with the rights holders of Professor Tolkien. Moreover, despite some obvious faults (notably concerning animation and certain problems with the continuity of the saga), the author of these lines confesses to have a certain sympathy for this animated feature film.
To come back to the movie The Hunt for Gollumthe feature film – which will have benefited from longer development – seems more reassuring. Indeed, if Andy Serkis made the infamous Venom: Let There Be Carnage, The actor intimately knows the character since he interpreted him in the two trilogies of Peter Jackson ; In addition, he officiated as director of the second shooting team on the entire trilogy of Hobbit. To see the result of this new incursion of the Peter Jackson teams in the field of midfielders, it will be necessary to wait until December 17, 2027. (No French release announced, but considering the habits of Warner Bros, we can probably expect an outing for December 15, 2027.)
Beyond the announcement of the release date of The Hunt for Gollumthis news seems to give us some elements of reflection concerning the strategy of Warner Bros. If it seems obvious that The legendary Hollywood major wishes to rest on the heritage of the Peter Jackson trilogy at the 17 Oscars – A recent article by Anne Besson published in the specialized journal Chimeras reminded us that fans of Rings Consider Peter Jackson as the “second creator” of the saga, explaining their leniency with some adaptation choices -, Warner Bros. Discovery has decided to reuse the holiday niche of the end of year. We recall that The Lord of the Rings: The Rohirrim War was released in theaters on December 11, 2024.
The niche of December 2027 also seems a fairly logical idea; apart from The Snow Queen 3which will appear in November of the same year, The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum has no big direct competitor. The fifth part ofAvatar by James Cameron was first announced in December 2027, before being shifted to 2031 (the fourth is scheduled for 2029), leaving the field for Gollum. It remains to be seen which other films will be announced for the month of December 2027, and if they will have an influence on the release of the new film The Lord of the Rings.
