The Hunt for Gollum (Working Title)

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Checks date .... nope, not April 1.

Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut

The first film, from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures, will be called Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum (working title), with Andy Serkis set to star and direct the feature,

[Frelga]

Why.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

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[Jude]

What Voronwë said.

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I seem to remember something about the rights reverting if they don't keep them active.

[Dave_LF]

This was already done long ago, right? As a fan-made thing?

Edit: Yes, and WB is evidently taking aggressive take-down action against it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 43004.html

[Alatar]

Yeah. Gollum mas mostly portrayed as a moving sack

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I seem to remember something about the rights reverting if they don't keep them active.

My understanding (which I have not researched fully) is that this is a whole new licensing agreement that WB/NL entered into with the new rights-holder, Embracer, after the latter purchased the rights from Saul Zaentz' company (whatever it was called at the time).

[Eldy]

This was already done long ago, right? As a fan-made thing?

Edit: Yes, and WB is evidently taking aggressive take-down action against it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 43004.html

I'm glad they've restored the fan film, but I'm not sure I buy the "it was a mistake" angle, unless the mistake was "we failed to anticipate the fan response". :V But yeah, the 2009 version was the first thing I thought of. I hope they at least change the working title for this new film.

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I know this has been mentioned in other threads, but it might be nice to have one location to discuss.

https://deadline.com/2024/05/the-lord-o ... 235917510/

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Good idea. Should I move the other posts to this thread?

[Alatar]

Maybe? Up to you really!

[kzer_za]

Not thrilled with this. I thought War of the Rohirrim was a tasteful way to continue making movies, possibly leading to an animated anthology series about less-known parts of the Third Age. This comes across as just a cash-in - remember the abandoned Hobbit "bridge film"? Admittedly it might be nice to see Serkis in action again though.

It will probably become a culture war icon for really stupid reasons just because it isn't Amazon though.