Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer.
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy was both a blessing and a curse for J.R.R. Tolkien's novels. A blessing in that they arguably remain the greatest-ever adaptation of a fantasy world into cinema, faithfully reimagining the books' beats and characters with a grandeur yet to be surpassed. And the curse was their success, instantly canonising Jackson's vision as the starting point for a new extended universe spinning out from the books.
If I seem glum about this it's only because, with the best will in the world, nothing since Jackson's trilogy has come close to that level—even Jackson's adaptation of the Hobbit, which should've been a slam-dunk prequel, ended up an overlong and drearily serious trilogy. Amazon's Rings of Power was just middle-of-the-road prestige TV.
A statement from Jackson, Walsh and Boyens reads: “"It is an honour and a privilege to travel back to Middle-earth with our good friend and collaborator, Andy Serkis, who has unfinished business with that Stinker — Gollum! As life long fans of Professor Tolkien’s vast mythology, we are proud to be working with Mike De Luca, Pam Abdy and the entire team at Warner Bros.
Well: this is what happens when you make three fantastic films that gross roughly $3 billion dollars. It's surprising to see Jackson continue his association with the Lord of the Rings, only inasmuch as it's all been diminishing returns since the trilogy, and I somehow suspect a Gollum chase movie isn't going to buck that trend.
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