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New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie Planned: Here is What We Know About 'The Hunt for Gollum'

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Warner Bros. said Thursday that it will release more films in its The Lord of the Rings franchise. The first of the films is still in script development but it is planned to be released in 2026.

Warner Bros. said Thursday that it will release more films in its The Lord of the Rings franchise, the first of which is still in script development but is planned to be released in 2026.

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"LOTR: The search for more money"
- Moichendising!
The dipshit exec responsible for milking Gollums flacid tits will make more money if they were to be fired than most of us will in a few lifetimes combined.
- "We will pay you to stop trying to make Gollum a thing."
Why do they assume we are all huge fans of Gollum? Like that dogshit videogame from last year wasn't enough
I really enjoyed the first 3 movies, couldn't get behind The Hobbit at all. I don't have high hopes for this.
- Hobbits were fun mid-tier movies, if you don't bring in your expectations from lotr
  
  And don't bring your expectations from actually having read the book.
  
  Yea I think that might be what ruined it for me. The bar was raised pretty high with LOTR, and The Hobbit was my favourite book growing up.
  
  The first one isn't bad at all. Second one's meh af snd the last is one of the worst fantasy films ever made.
  
  I watched them and I was like... OK, if I had an editing suite I could get 1-2 good movies out of this...
in its The Lord of the Rings franchise

Imagine being that callous. I will never consider anything WB does with it to be anything other than fanfiction desperate for attention. The Tolkiens' work is finite and absolute.
Shouldn't be made.
- Why?
  
  In exhibit number one, we have a dogshit billion-dollar fanfiction titled Rings of Power.
  
  In exhibit two, a game that nobody wanted, around events that didn't happen, with characters nobody cares about, that shouldn't have been made: Gollum.
  
  The farther it gets from the source material, the worse it gets. There is no source material to cover what they want to do here.
Goddamn. I read this a few days ago elsewhere and seriously thought it was a parody.

WB is going to do to this franchise what it has done to the Harry Potter and the DC (well DC had a couple decent ones) and take what was good and run it straight into the ground.

Had they said they were going to do the Silmarillion or the like I might had been excited but nope just more bullshit.
- Literally who is their target for these things? They could ask he fandom and get a ranked list of 100 ideas that would make better games and movies.
  
  You know what no one has thought? "Let's just watch the opening of Two Towers where they're scrambling through rocks". No one wants to just watch (or play) gollum. Give us Gondor, big fights, deep lore, ffs.
- I believe the story is that the original three Lord of The Rings films were licensed under an old film option deal (as in the option predated Peter Jackson working on the project). That deal was made when the Tolkien estate was under different management or something. And the current regime is not doing any film licensing for Silmarillion or anything else.
  
  I think this is also related to the Rings of Power Amazon series. I think they sublicensed the rights to the LOTR appendices from the same movie option that the Peter Jackson films were made from, but they couldn't get access to a Silmarillion.
  
  And the current regime is not doing any film licensing for Silmarillion or anything else.
  
  After seeing what happened to the hobbit, who could blame them?
The real title is The Hunt for Red Gollum.

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