“I’ve just been told there are going to be more films and Gandalf will be involved and they hope that I’ll be playing him,” McKellen said. “When? I don’t know. What the script is? It’s not written yet. So they better be quick!”
– Sir Ian McKellen, in an interview with a British magazine recently.
In May, Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav shared the studio is “now in the early stages of script development” for new LOTR films which are anticipated to come out in 2026 and “explore storylines yet to be told.”
The first film, from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures, has the working title of Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, with Andy Serkis set to star and direct the feature.
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