The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, the brand new LOTR film that can characteristic Andy Serkis as each its star and director, will premiere in theaters on December seventeenth, 2027, Deadline stories.Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens, who have been all key to the unique movie trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy, shall be producing the film, Deadline says. Walsh and Boyens will write the screenplay. That crew can even be producing a second new LOTR film, however there hasn’t been a director introduced for that movie, based on The Hollywood Reporter.The Hunt for Gollum was initially introduced by Warner Bros. Discovery final 12 months, with WBD CEO David Zaslav saying that it had an anticipated 2026 launch date. (A press launch on the time famous that the title is a working title.) The brand new film follows 2024’s Lord of the Rings anime movie, The Warfare of the Rohirrim. And Amazon is at present engaged on a 3rd season of its Lord of the Rings sequence, The Rings of Energy.