The Hunt for Gollum Will Be Simply One Film, After All

Throughout a latest interview with Empire, The Lord of the Rings co-screenwriter Philippa Boyens confirmed Andy Serkis‘s upcoming spinoff film starring his personal breakout motion-capture character, The Hunt for Gollum, can be only one film—not two as was previously reported.

“I can inform you definitively it isn’t two movies,” she says. “That was a real misunderstanding that occurred as a result of we’ve begun to work, conceptually, on two totally different live-action movies. The primary being The Hunt For Gollum, the second nonetheless to be confirmed.”

Boyens moreover revealed the timeframe of the Gollum spinoff in relation to The Fellowship of the Ring. “It’s fairly an intense story, which falls after the birthday celebration of Bilbo and earlier than the Mines of Moria. It’s a particular chunk of unbelievable untold story, informed by the attitude of this unbelievable creature.”

In case you recall, the rumor Serkis’ Gollum image could be unfold throughout two feature-length movies originated in an interview with Sir Ian McKellan; his confusion apparently stemmed from a miscommunication with Peter Jackson’s WingNut Movies which has “a number of” concepts for added initiatives starring Gandalf, in response to Boyens. “We’re enjoying round with numerous concepts, however most of these concepts do embody Gandalf,” she informed Empire. “So Gandalf would doubtlessly return for 2 live-action movies. We now have an absolute banger of a second movie that might simply be unbelievable as an anime. However let’s see if there’s an urge for food for it.”

In case you’ve forgotten, The Lord of the Rings: The Warfare of the Rohirrim—an anime fantasy movie directed by Kenji Kamiyama (Patlabor, Ghost within the Shell: Stand Alone Complicated)—is about for a theatrical launch this December 13. Starring Brian Cox because the legendary Helm Hammerhand, the story considerations the previous King of Rohan and his household as they defend their kingdom towards a military of Dunlendings. Relying on how nicely that movie does, we might moreover get a follow-up anime starring the 85-year previous McKellan as Gandalf in a voiceover position.

However that actually begs the query of whether or not the American moviegoing public can be concerned with seeing a conventional 2D animated movie—or Serkis’s movie, for that matter, a complete 20 years following the discharge of The Return of the King and 10 years after a Hobbit trilogy largely remembered for its tie-in Denny’s menu. To cite Gandalf himself: “All we’ve to determine is what to do with the time that’s given to us.”

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