Warner Bros. Discovery is planning two new live-action “Lord of the Rings” movies, the first of which will be released in 2026, marking the first new film in the hit series in a decade, directed by and starring Andy Serkis, who starred in the original trilogy from the early 2000s and starred that trilogy’s director, Peter Jackson as producer.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav showed for the first time on an earnings conference call Thursday that a new Lord of the Rings movie is “in the early stages of script development” with a possible 2026 release date, and that Jackson is “involving each and every step of the process. “the process. “”
It will be the first of two new live-action “Lord of the Rings” films through Jackson, his wife Fran Walsh and screenwriter Philippa Boyens, who worked together on “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit. “” according to a Warner Bros. press release published after Zaslav’s earnings call.
In its press release, Warner Bros. revealed the film’s current name, “The Hunt for Gollum,” with Serkis in the lead. Serkis played the main character Gollum in the original trilogy and Jackson’s next prequel trilogy, “The Hobbit”. and starred in many blockbuster films, including Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther,” Jackson’s “Planet of the Apes” and Jackson’s “King Kong” in 2005.
Warner Bros. collaborates with New Line Cinema, which produced the trilogy and Warner Bros. acquired in 2008.
This is the first really extensive update of the videos since Zaslav first announced them last year and teased Jackson’s involvement. Zaslav proved that the films will explore new narrative terrain by functioning as a remake of the trilogy of more than 20 years.
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$6 billion. That’s how successful the “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies are, whether directed through J. R. R. ‘s Middle-earth World. Tolkien, making it one of the 20 highest-grossing film franchises of all time. of the Rings,” the 2003 film “The Return of the King” won 11 Oscars that year, adding Best Picture, tying “Titanic” and “Ben-Hur” for the all-time high.
Zaslav emphasized the importance of “The Lord of the Rings” as a central component of Warner Bros. ‘ long-term strategy. Discovery, saying that, along with the “Harry Potter” franchise and DC Comics, it is among the largest media corporations to suffer. Intellectual assets, but lately they are “underutilized. ” The last film set in Middle-earth, the final installment of the Hobbit trilogy, “The Battle of the Five Armies”, released in 2014. Warner is also rebooting the “Harry Potter” franchise with a new TV series on its Max streaming service. which also contemplates a release in 2026, after a decade of films based on J. K. Rowling’s book series published between 2001 and 2011. In addition, the company has tapped director James Gunn to reboot its DC Comics superhero-founded movies, with a new Superman movie on the way. It’s coming out next year.
Warner Bros. et New Line Cinema is releasing a new animated film “The Lord of the Rings” called “The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim,” which will be released this Christmas. We also have to contend with Amazon Prime’s “The Rings of Power,” a TV series set thousands of years before the events of “The Lord of the Rings,” which charges Amazon around $1 billion and is recently underway. of all time. The second season will air later this year after the first season garnered positive reviews from critics, but it has become the center of online controversy over cast diversity.
Warner Bros. Discovery announced Thursday that while it saw an expansion in streaming subscribers, its earnings beat expectations and fell 7% in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the first quarter of 2023. Its inventory value increased by about 1% on Thursday morning.
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