WIFT patron Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh, Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou are underway in writing a new script, ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Hunt For Gollum.' Boyens shared with Deadline, “Gollum’s life span takes place in such an interesting period of Middle-earth. When the question was first asked, this was the first story we thought of…Gollum’s story is one of the most compelling to us in terms of a character that we couldn’t go as deeply into as we wanted to before...” The film is set to be directed by Gollum himself, or more accurately, Andy Serkis, the man who played Gollum.
There is no information on when this project will shoot, but when it does, it will happen in New Zealand!
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