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Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 05/09/2024 | Alex Weprin

Posted on 05/11/2024 4:37:31 AM PDT by DFG

Warner Bros. has made it official: It will be returning to Middle-earth.

On Warner Bros. Discovery’s first-quarter earnings conference call on Thursday, CEO David Zaslav said that the company is “now in the early stages of script development” for new Lord of the Rings movies, which he says they “anticipate releasing in 2026” and will “explore storylines yet to be told.”

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,

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: gollum; lotr; movies; tolkien; warnerbros
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1 posted on 05/11/2024 4:37:31 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Will this one feature Tom Bombadil?


2 posted on 05/11/2024 4:41:34 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: DFG
Soon to be followed by the release of "My Precious ~ A Love Story" and "Dances with Balrogs"...

Peter Jackson showed great respect for Tolkien's work. I hope these movies show the same effort but...money.

3 posted on 05/11/2024 4:42:21 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob
"YOU SHALL NOT DANCE..."


4 posted on 05/11/2024 4:45:33 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: DFG

Keep any woke folk miles and miles away. Please, oh please.


5 posted on 05/11/2024 4:47:32 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DFG

Can Warner Bros afford it ?


6 posted on 05/11/2024 4:53:48 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ArtDodger

Here’s hoping.


7 posted on 05/11/2024 5:00:01 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: butlerweave

I think so.


8 posted on 05/11/2024 5:00:14 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DFG

Hollywood has new standards and quotas today. Every white male character must be race or gender swapped, except for evil or stupid characters which can only be done by white actors. All the strong characters must be dysfunctional women who are feminists. There must be a solid anti-capitalist theme than underlies the main story.


9 posted on 05/11/2024 5:01:36 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

exactly

not gonna watch

I will stick to the earlier version, Viggo Mortenson, Sean Bean....


10 posted on 05/11/2024 5:11:08 AM PDT by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: Da Coyote
Keep any woke folk miles and miles away.

I figure they are going to bring forth an army of conquering black women lesbians called "Da Homeys" who ravage middle Earth to liberate the orcs and goblins from the tyranny of Minus Tirith.

11 posted on 05/11/2024 5:22:46 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: DFG

Fund hawlyweird?? Not me.


12 posted on 05/11/2024 5:23:50 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

All the strong characters must be dysfunctional women who are feminists ... and must be capable of killing battle-hardened male warriors by the handful in seconds.


13 posted on 05/11/2024 5:30:45 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ArtDodger

Amen, Brudderh!

I really loved the Tom Bombadil character in the book - really wish he was in the movie. At least I am not alone!


14 posted on 05/11/2024 6:03:23 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: ArtDodger

How about Chris Farley as Tom Bombadil!


15 posted on 05/11/2024 6:04:00 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Caipirabob
"Peter Jackson showed great respect for Tolkien's work."

You must have missed the the Hobbit films...

16 posted on 05/11/2024 6:08:10 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: DFG

His Lord of the Rings series was excellent.

Unfortunately his 3 films on the Hobbit were just as bad as his Lord of the Rings were good.

In the former, he did a good job of deleting certain characters who were superfluous, combining others into one role in a way that made the story more coherent, and generally in being faithful to the books. In the latter, he took what was more of a children’s book and stretched it out into 3 (which was just greedy IMO) AND he made it a precursor to the Lord of the Rings series...WHICH IT WAS NOT if you read the Hobbit. He utterly trashed the story, IMO and he didn’t need to do that. It was a good enough story on its own and could have been made into a single good movie.


17 posted on 05/11/2024 6:08:11 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: DFG

Christopher Tolkien was a careful and respectful guardian of his father’s legacy. Now that he’s gone, I assume JRR Tolkien’s heirs are going to cash in every which way they can.


18 posted on 05/11/2024 6:13:20 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: butlerweave

Made 103 million in 2023 after paying bills. Not bad. Not great either.


19 posted on 05/11/2024 7:00:49 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: DFG

Warner Brothers korporate management is clearly desperate.


20 posted on 05/11/2024 7:02:52 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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