Warner Bros. Discovery’s first new Lord of the Rings movie is due out in 2026

/ Andy Serkis is set to direct and star in Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, a new film produced by Peter Jackson for Warner Bros.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

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Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it was working on “multiple Lord of the Rings movies’’ with New Line Cinema, the production company that put out Peter Jackson’s original trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels. Now, we know when the first of those new movies

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