Peter Jackson Explains Hunt For Gollum & His LOTR Return 10 Years After The Hobbit Trilogy

Hunt For Gollum: Peter Jackson explains The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, and why he decided to return to the franchise a decade after The Hobbit trilogy. The New Zealand filmmaker brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth to life as director of the touchstone Lord of the Rings trilogy and returned to helm The Hobbit trilogy, the latter released from 2012 to 2014. It was recently announced that a new Lord of the Rings: Hunt for Gollum movie is in the works with Jackson producing, and Gollum actor Andy Serkis directing and starring.

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Hunt For Gollum

During a recent interview with Deadline, Jackson explained why he decided to return to Lord of the Rings for the Hunt for Gollum movie, and why Andy Serkis was selected as director. Though his trilogy touches on it briefly, Jackson says there is much more of Gollum’s backstory to explore, especially when his whereabouts were unknown. Speaking on why Serkis was selected as director, Jackson mentioned his time working as a second unit director on The Hobbit trilogy. Read Jackson’s full comments below:

Hunt For Gollum

The Gollum/Sméagol character has always fascinated me because Gollum reflects the worst of human nature, whilst his Sméagol side is, arguably, quite sympathetic. I think he connects with readers and film audiences alike, because there’s a little bit of both of them in all of us. 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. It’s too soon to know who will cross his path, but suffice to say we will take our lead from Professor Tolkien.

Andy was a joy to work with directing Second Unit on The Hobbit . He has the energy and imagination and, most importantly, an inherent understanding of the world of the story that is needed to step back into Middle-earth.