Overview
- Wood said the creative team intends to make additional films set in Middle-earth beyond The Hunt for Gollum.
- He declined to confirm whether he will appear as Frodo, saying, “I can neither confirm nor deny,” and adding, “a wizard is to be trusted.”
- Andy Serkis is directing the prequel, and Elijah Wood noted that Philippa Boyens is co-writing and producing with key original department heads returning.
- Ian McKellen is confirmed to return as Gandalf, and he has teased that the movie will include “a character named Frodo.”
- The film is set before The Fellowship of the Ring, with reporting pointing to Gandalf and Aragorn’s hunt for Gollum, and it is slated for December 17, 2027, with no further films formally announced yet.