A new Lord of the Rings movie will premiere in theaters on Dec 17, 2027. It’s the first of two films that will focus on Gandalf, Aragorn, and Sauron searching for Gollum.
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As someone who read the Silmarillion and many other post-LotR books and compilations and so forth, I still have to ask WHYYYYYYY. Oh, right, money. I wonder if there's any possibility it will feel worthwhile.
If it’s anything like the Hobbit movies, not only will it suck, but will detract from the films that preceded it. Somehow the Hobbit made LOTR seem retroactively worse.
There is an edit of the three Hobbit movies that slices out all the non-book stuff and winds up being a far better experience. That said I kinda liked the Necromancer stuff but it was far from necessary.
Oh, the Hobbit movies were bad for so many reasons, not just for jamming in all that Silmarillion/Appendices stuff that had a wildly different tone to The Hobbit. The over-reliance on CGI was just awful. The orcs in Fellowship STILL give me anxiety. The orcs in The Hobbit were laughable in how fake they looked. Such a massive disappointment three times over.
I'd love for them to return to the practical effects we saw in the LotR films and not the laughable CGI we saw in the Hobbit (also, why was that three films? Why is this one two?). Honestly, whichever one had the dwarfs in barrels in a river has the distinction of being one of the few movies in my entire life that I did not finish.
*And yes, i know LotR had plenty of CGI.
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