Philippa Boyens confirms that The Hunt for Gollum will be just one film after two-parter rumours and teases another live-action undertaking.
Ian McKellen obtained Lord of the Rings followers speaking final month when he confirmed he had been approached about reprising his position of Gandalf for The Hunt for Gollum and added that the movie would be a two-parter. Followers had been a bit confused, however screenwriter Philippa Boyens has fortunately set the report straight whereas talking with Empire, confirming that the spinoff will be just one film in spite of everything.
“I can tell you definitively it isn’t two films!” Boyens stated. “That was a genuine misunderstanding that happened because we’ve begun to work, conceptually, on two different live-action films. The first being The Hunt For Gollum, the second one still to be confirmed.” Boyens additionally added a couple of temporary particulars on the place The Hunt for Gollum suits into the Lord of the Rings saga. “It’s quite an intense story, which falls after the birthday party of Bilbo and before the Mines Of Moria,” she stated. “It’s a selected chunk of unimaginable untold story, advised by means of the perspective of this unimaginable creature.“
It’s not clear what that second film would be, but it surely might additionally contain Gandalf. “We’re playing around with a number of ideas, but most of those ideas do include Gandalf,” Boyens defined. “So Gandalf would potentially return for two live-action films.” It’s been ten years since McKellen final performed Gandalf, however the 85-year-old actor has stated that if they need him to reprise the position as soon as once more, they’d “better be quick” about it.
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Andy Serkis, who will direct the film in addition to play Gollum, dropped a couple of teases about The Hunt for Gollum earlier this 12 months. “It is so early; it would be unfair to commit to anything at this point,” Serkis stated. “However I will say that it will be a deep dive the place we examine Gollum’s character. There might be characters that we acknowledge that may be coming again. I’m not going to say who.“
Whereas we did see quite a lot of Gollum’s saga play out in the earlier six motion pictures, Peter Jackson has beforehand stated that there’s nonetheless quite a lot of story left to be advised. “The Gollum/Sméagol character has always fascinated me because Gollum reflects the worst of human nature, whilst his Sméagol side is, arguably, quite sympathetic,” Jackson stated. “I believe he connects with readers and movie audiences alike, as a result of there’s a bit little bit of each of them in all of us. We actually need to discover his backstory and delve into these components of his journey we didn’t have time to cowl in the earlier movies. It’s too quickly to know who will cross his path, however suffice to say we will take our lead from Professor Tolkien.“