Gollum will officially return to the big screen for Christmas 2027. Warner Bros. announced that “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For Gollum” by Andy Serkis, December 17, 2027. The studio is also dated to the next film “Evil Dead”, with Souheila Yacoub, for July 24. Jake Gyllenhaal, Phoebe Dynevor and Ashley Walters play in the last of Shyamalan.
The release date of “The Hunt for Gollum” is hardly a surprise given the six films in the trilogies “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” by Peter Jackson opened in December before the Christmas holidays. Each trilogy propelled $ 2.9 billion to the world box office.
Warner Bros. Announced for the first time “Hunting in Gollum” last summer and said that it would be ready for theaters in 2026. The film was delayed by one year. Serkis directs the Tentpole and again puts with the title role, which he plays via movement capture since “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers of 2002” of 2002. The efforts of director of Serkis include “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” and “Venom: whether carnage”.
The filmmaker of the original “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy Peter Jackson and his partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens produce the new film. Warner Bros. underlined during the announcement of “Gollum” that the trio “will be involved at each stage of the process”.
Boyens told Empire Magazine that “Hunting in Gollum” is “a fairly intense story” which “falls after the Bilbo birthday party and before the Moria mines. It is a specific song of incredible inexpressible history, told through the perspective of this incredible creature. ” The members of the original distribution “Rings” such as Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Orlando Bloom (Legolas) and Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) all expressed their interest in returning to the new film if the story was logical for their characters to appear, although no additional casting has been confirmed.
The franchise “The Lord of the Rings” was the last in theaters in December 2024 with the release of the anime film “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Roirrim”. “Gollum” will be the first film “Rings” live since “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” of 2014.
