BREAKING 🚨: First Look At The Hunt For Gollum 🎥
Warner Bros. has unveiled the first official set images from The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, giving us our first real glimpse of the new film’s return to the Shire — and, most importantly, Elijah Wood back as Frodo Baggins.
The images show fresh-faced Hobbits moving through Hobbiton, with one particularly striking shot appearing to show Frodo approaching the familiar green round door of Bag End. It’s an instantly recognizable piece of Middle-earth, and seeing it again after all these years is something genuinely special.
We also get a behind-the-scenes look at Andy Serkis directing on set. Serkis is not only behind the camera for this new chapter, but is once again returning as Gollum through motion capture.
The film takes place in the years surrounding the events of The Fellowship of the Ring, exploring the hunt for Gollum that Tolkien only briefly recounted through Gandalf and Aragorn. Jamie Dornan plays Aragorn, with Ian McKellen returning as Gandalf, while Lee Pace returns as Thranduil.
And now, for the first time, we can actually see Frodo in this new chapter of Middle-earth.
There’s something wonderfully surreal about seeing Hobbiton alive again.
Twenty-five years after Peter Jackson’s journey began, we’re going back to the Shire.
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum arrives in theaters December 17, 2027.
Photos Courtesy of Warner Bros. 📸
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