LOS ANGELES – A brand new installment within the Lord of the Rings movie collection, one of many largest movie franchises of all time, will debut in theaters in 2026.
It's one in all two new Lord of the Rings movies introduced by Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav on Thursday (Could 9).
Andy Serkis will reprise his function as Gollum and direct the primary of the 2 movies, which has the working title The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.
Peter Jackson, who directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy twenty years in the past adopted by three Hobbit movies, will produce the brand new movies.
The movies are primarily based on books written by JRR Tolkien and set within the fictional land of Center Earth inhabited by people, elves, dwarves and hobbits.
The franchise's earlier movies have grossed practically $6 billion mixed on the international field workplace. The 2003 movie, The Return of the King, received 11 Oscars, together with greatest image.
A beforehand introduced animated Lord of the Rings film, known as Battle of the Rohirrim, will hit theaters in December.
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