‘Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’ Is Not Two Movies, but Another New ‘Rings’ Movie Is Being Planned: ‘Most of the Ideas Do Include Gandalf’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Ian McKellen sent “Lord of the Rings” fans into a tizzy earlier this year when he teased that the upcoming new movie, “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” would actually be two films.
Not so fast. Philippa Boyens, the screenwriter who worked on Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies, has confirmed to Empire magazine that “The Hunt for Gollum” is one movie.
However, more live-action “Rings” movies could be on the way beyond that. “I can tell you definitively it isn’t two films!” Boyens said. “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 is writing “The Hunt for Gollum” with longtime “Rings” collaborator Fran Walsh, Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou.
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