Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema have set a Dec. 17, 2027 theatrical release for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.
Currently Disney has an untitled Star Wars movie in Comscore on that that 2027 date, but that probably just hasn’t been scrubbed from the system yet. As we know, Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter with Ryan Gosling is dated for May 28, 2027. Universal has an untitled date reservation for Dec. 22, 2027.
That’s the corridor by the way that previous Peter Jackson directed Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies have bowed within. The first of the two films The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum (*WT) will be directed by and star Andy Serkis in the title role.
The Oscar-winning team behind the blockbuster The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies — Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens — is reuniting to produce two new films from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth for Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema. Zane Weiner is also producing.
Walsh and Boyens are writing the screenplay, along with Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou.
The pic will be executive produced by Ken Kamins, with Serkis and The Imaginarium’s Jonathan Cavendish.
The news for Hunt for Gollum comes in the wake of Warner Bros Discovery’s Q1 results which grew streaming subs and profit.
The entire Lord of the Rings and Hobbit live-action movies through six titles have grossed over $5.9 billion for Warner Bros/New Line.
Warners made a go at taking the Lord of the Rings franchise into the anime space last December, but it didn’t go well with Kenji Kamiyama’s The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim grossing only $20.6M worldwide.