The continuity of Gollum's story is anything but precious. In 2026, the story of the Hobbit formerly known as Sméagol will get twistier and stranger than ever before. Shocking fans of Middle-earth, it's that Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis are working on a new motion picture called .
But what is this movie actually about? Who is hunting for Gollum and why? And more importantly, will end up retconning both and ? Well, even if it does, here’s the thing: Gollum basically lives to be retconned. For a week since the announcement, Tolkien-heads have already spent several second breakfasts pondering questions about the movie. And with details scarce, it’s hard to come up with convincing answers.
Back in 2009, a fan film with followed Strider as he tried to locate Gollum, prior to meeting Frodo in . The new film is almost certainly not a big-screen remake of that story, but, then again, it has to be a prequel to trilogy because Gollum is very much alive. (Unless the movie is about the hunt for Gollum’s ghost, which seems unlikely, but vaguely possible? Middle-earth Ghostbusters?) “We really want to explore his backstory and delve into those parts of his journey we didn’t have time to cover in the earlier films,” Peter Jackson It’s too soon to know who will cross his path, but suffice to say we will take our lead from Professor Tolkien.
” And it’s in this last little detail that Jackson is revealing the deeper retcon magic from before the dawn of time. He and Serkis c.