{"id":123001,"date":"2024-09-04T22:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T22:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/04\/mckellen-open-to-returning-in-new-lord-of-the-rings-films\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T22:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T22:49:35","slug":"mckellen-open-to-returning-in-new-lord-of-the-rings-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/04\/mckellen-open-to-returning-in-new-lord-of-the-rings-films\/","title":{"rendered":"McKellen Open to Returning in New \u2018Lord of the Rings\u2019 Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1725512400%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262140977%26%26%26youtube%26HQtGOCEYE3I%3A48d9714b6733d2742e721ded4f6a99aac7d2fac5&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=HQtGOCEYE3I&amp;moduleid=2140977&amp;preview=&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2140977\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with a British magazine, the actor discussed returning to his iconic role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve just been told there are going to be more films and Gandalf will be involved and they hope that I\u2019ll be playing him,\u201d McKellen said. \u201cWhen? I don\u2019t know. What the script is? It\u2019s not written yet. So they better be quick!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May, Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav shared the studio is \u201cnow in the early stages of script development\u201d for new LotR films which are anticipated to come out in 2026 and will \u201cexplore storylines yet to be told.\u201d The first film, from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures, has the working title of Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, with Andy Serkis set to star and direct the feature.<\/p>\n<p>LotR director Peter Jackson and his longtime writing partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens \u201cwill be involved every step of the way\u201d and produce. Boyens and Walsh will write the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HQtGOCEYE3I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">THR YouTube video<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/ian-mckellen-open-returning-gandalf-lord-of-the-rings-1235989711\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/129108343.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with a British magazine, the actor discussed returning to his iconic role. &#8220;I\u2019ve just been told there are going to be more films and Gandalf will be involved and they hope that I\u2019ll be playing him,\u201d McKellen said. \u201cWhen? I don\u2019t know. What the script is? It\u2019s not written yet. So they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-123001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}