Warner Bros Wants To Make A Gollum Movie

There was once a time when JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was considered to be “unfilmable.” The people who claimed that would find our modern age interesting, where Lord of the Rings related productions are the only things that DO get made.

If The Rings Of Power and the upcoming animated LOTR movie War of the Rohirrim aren’t enough for you, WB has announced they’re giving Gollum his own feature. It’ll be called The Hunt for Gollum and Andy Serkis has been locked down to once again mo-cap the bug-eyed lisping creature. The targeted release date is 2026.

As we’ve mentioned before, the Hollywood rights to Tolkien’s stories are a tangled mess, with different outfits owning different pieces. Whatever a Hunt For Gollum would be about, it’s most likely derived from a short passage in one of the books that describes a period of time where Gollum was captured by Shelob, then by Sauron, then by Aragorn and Gandalf, most of whom wanted information out of him about the One Ring (which had passed to Bilbo by this point). None of this is really elaborated on, it’s just mentioned as having happened, so the film will have to make a lot up. But that hasn’t stopped them before!

We’re at the point where LOTR stuff is considered a “safe bet” as opposed to the late 90s, when it was a huge financial risk to give a three-picture trilogy deal to a man who wore no shoes. Today’s risk is tomorrow’s safe bet, and today’s safe bet is tomorrow’s tired dead concept. What I’m saying is that LOTR will eventually flip around to becoming unfilmable again, but due to overexposure.