Lord of the Rings screenwriter confirms Hunt for Gollum won't be two movies and reveals "most of the ideas" for future films involve Gandalf

Gandalf in Return of the King
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Despite reports indicating that The Hunt for Gollum would be two movies, the producer has ꦓconfirmed that this isn't the case – thou🐻gh another Lord of the Rings movie is in the works. 

"I can tell you definitively it isn't two films!" Lord Of The Rings screenwriter Philippa Boyens told . "That was a genuine misunderstanding that happened because we've begun to work, conceptually, on two different ♏live-action films. The first being The Hunt For Gollum, the se🧔cond one still to be confirmed."

. "We're playing around with a number of ideas, but most of those ideas do include Gandalf," Boyens added. "So Gandalf would potentially return for two live-action films."

That's not the end of the potential LOTR expansion, either, with Boyens also teasing that more anime movies could happen if the upcoming War ﷽of the Rohirrim is a hit. "We have an absolute banger of a second film that would just be incredible as an anime," she said. "But let's see if there’s an appetite for🍌 it."

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Molly Edwards
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