Andy Serkis wants to return to ‘Lord of the Rings’: ‘Middle-earth has never left me’

“Middle-earth has never left me”, This is how deep is the love Andy Serkis feels for ‘The Lord of the Rings’, saga in which he participated by giving life to Gollum from ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’, going through several video games . Now that Warner Bros. is preparing new films from JRR Tolkien’s universe, During his talk on BroBible’s Post-Credit Podcast, he was asked about his willingness to participate in these new productions: “I think there are a lot of other potential Middle-earth projects that could come up, and if they’re realizing those, obviously I’d jump at the chance to rekindle that relationship.”

With “that relationship” refers to what he has with director Peter Jackson and producers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, which considers a “second family”, Furthermore “the best and most amazing people you can work with.” We can currently see Serkis in ‘Luther: Night Falls’, a film based on the Netflix series that arrived on the streaming platform on March 10 with Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo.

What’s happening in Middle-earth?

For now, Amazon Prime Video is still working on the second season of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’, which, in fact, will be shot in Spain; Warner Bros. for its part has only made the announcement that little things are comingbut he didn’t specify anything else and we don’t know if his new films will take place before, after or at the same time as those of Peter Jackson or will in fact be a new adaptation.

For now Jackson is not involved in this expansion of the saga, although both the director and the then producers, Walsh and Boyens, They left a window open on a possible participation in the statements for Deadline: “Warner Bros and Embracer have kept us informed every step of the way. […] We look forward to continuing to speak with them to hear their side of where the franchise is headed.”.