This announcement will make Lord of the Rings fans shudder: the film about Gollum could be hiding another one!

News culture This announcement will make Lord of the Rings fans shudder: the film about Gollum could be hiding another one!

Two Gollum films for the price of one? At least that’s what Ian McKellen – known for his role as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings – suggests in a recent interview… Guest on the British show This Morning, The actor claims that “he was told about two feature films” for the Sméagol spin-offThe project in question, which bears the working title The Hunt for Gollum, was announced last May by Warner Bros. Expected release date: 2026.

Reliable information?

“I probably shouldn’t tell you this,” Ian McKellen continues, just after his blunder… “I haven’t read the script yet (…) I don’t even know where it’s going to be filmed.” Basically, we should not cry victory yet, this story of two films is not confirmed.In the same interview, the actor admits that he “would love” to return to New Zealand to shoot a new episode of Lord of the Rings.

“Several” films

In any case, as recalled VarietyWarner Bros announced in February 2023 that it had signed a deal to make “multiple” films based on JRR Tolkien’s work. At the moment, there is little information about Hunt for Gollum – other than that it will happen in two years and that It will be directed by Andy Serkis himself (the famous interpreter of Sméagol, who will obviously reprise his iconic role in the process). Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, will serve as producer. He and his associates “will be involved at every stage of the process,” Warner’s CEO said last May.

Among these “several projects” mentioned by Warner, there is also The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, an animated film expected on December 11 in theaters. A first for the Tolkien universe. The feature film invites us to discover Middle Earth 200 years before the Fellowship of the Ring.when a terrible war ravages the lands of Rohan.