‘Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’: We Have a New Aragorn, and Everything Else We Know
Harry Potter is not the only beloved fantasy series with film adaptations that hit theaters starting in 2001 to return to our screens. More than two decades after the immensely popular Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy smashed the box office and swept some Oscars (not to mention embedded itself into millennial psyches), Warner Brothers is heading back to Middle Earth. Way back in February 2023, Warner Brothers announced that there would be multiple new films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s material coming from the studio. At CinemaCon in Las Vegas last week, the world got its first look at what that’ll actually look like. Here’s everything we know about the new Lord of the Rings series so far. Bump that Enya and let’s go. What’s the new movie called, what’s it about, and how exactly does it fit in the Tolkien extended universe? The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum takes place during the time period between Bilbo Baggins’s birthday party at the start of the The Fellowship of the Ring and …
