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New Lord of the Rings movies are officially on the way from Warner Bros. and Andy Serkis is the first original cast member to say he’s ready to return to Middle-earth. Serkis gave an iconic motion capture performance as Gollum in Peter Jackson’s original trilogy and reprized the role in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
“Look, [producers] Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens are a second family that I’ve become a part of and I’ve made so many movies with them,” Serkis said. BroBible’s Post-Credit Podcast. “And – let me tell you – they are the best and most incredible people to work with. I think there are so many other potential projects in Middle Earth that could come up, and if they do, of course I would jump at the chance to rekindle that relationship.”
Serkis added, “Middle Earth never left me.”
While Amazon Prime Video is currently filming the second season of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” Warner Bros. surprised fans in late February when it announced that new studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy brokered to make “multiple” movies based on JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books. No additional information was provided by the studio, which means it’s anybody’s guess whether the story will continue before, after, or during Peter Jackson’s original trilogy.
In a statement to Variety, Peter Jackson and “Lord of the Rings” co-stars Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens said Warner Bros. “kept us in the loop every step of the way” about the new “Lord of the Rings” movies. Jackson was behind the three “Rings” films and the three “The Hobbit” films, winning the Oscar for best director for “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”
“We look forward to speaking with you [the studio] further to hear their vision for the franchise moving forward,” Jackson, Walsh and Boyens added in their statement.
Serkis currently stars opposite Idris Elba in “Luther: The Fallen Sun,” now streaming on Netflix.
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