New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Film Gets Official Release Date

The primary live-action Lord of the Rings film in over a decade has an official launch date.

The film is titled The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. Andy Serkis, who performed Gollum in Peter Jackson’s unique Lord of the Rings trilogy, is directing and starring within the movie. Jackson is concerned as a producer.

Warner Bros. has set a launch date for the brand new movie within the vacation season of 2027. When it was first introduced within the spring of 2024, it got here with a projected launch date of 2026. All of Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films have been Christmas tentpoles as nicely.

The Hunt for Gollum will purportedly “discover storylines but to be informed” throughout the Lord of the Rings universe. In an interview with Empire, author/producer Philippa Boyens known as it “fairly an intense story, which falls after the celebration of Bilbo and earlier than the Mines of Moria … “It’s a selected chunk of unbelievable untold story, informed by the angle of this unbelievable creature.”

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Even supposing J.R.R. Tolkien handed away greater than 50 years in the past, his works proceed to be tailored or sequelized at a uncommon tempo. Amazon is at present within the midst of manufacturing a large Lord of the Rings tv sequence, The Rings of Energy, whereas simply final 12 months, Warner Bros. launched an animated Lord of the Rings prequel movie known as The Battle of the Rohirrim. (Not like all the live-action Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies launched all through the twenty first century, that one was not successful.)

The final live-action LOTR movies have been Jackson’s trilogy of The Hobbit films, which opened in theaters in in December 2012, 2013, and 2014, and grossed $2.91 billion worldwide.

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum is now scheduled to open in theaters on December 17, 2027.