A new film by Lord of the Rings produced by Warner It is newline, responsible for the original cinema trilogy and the The Hobbitwill be released in 2026. Peter Jacksondirector of the previous adaptations will produce, and the director will be Andy Serkiswho played Gollum in the cinema and who also returns to the role.
The name of the film will be The Lord of The Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. In direct translation: The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.
Jackson “will be involved in every moment” of development and is one of the producers, Warner’s statement said. The script is currently being written.
Last year, Warner Bros. announced that it had signed an agreement to work with the new owner of the rights to Lord of the Rings, Embracer Group, in new live-action films. This would be the first of them.
Warner’s agreement with the current holder of the rights to The Lord of the Rings — Embracer Group AB, which acquired the franchise from Saul Zaentz Company last year — should allow the studio to use the main characters from the saga in the cinema, such as Aragorn, Gandalf , Bilbo, among others. The studio fought in court for years with Tolkien’s estate until reaching an agreement in 2017.
Since then, the estate has also sold adaptation rights to Amazonwhich invested US$500 million in the production of the series The Rings of Powerwhose first season premiered in 2022.
The story of War of the Rohirrim – knights of the kingdom of Rohan – takes place more than a century before the events of the original trilogy and will follow the life of Helm Hammerhand, King of Rohan. He was mentioned by JRR Tolkien in the appendices of the books, but its history was never detailed. In the film, we will see Helm and his people setting up a last line of defense in the fortress of Hornburg amid attacks from Wulf, a Dunlending lord.
