

New Line Cinema is producing a new animated movie, Amazon spent a mint on The Rings of Power, and Andy Serkis - who played Gollum in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy - is recording a new audiobook version of The Silmarillion, J.R.R. The Lord of the Ringsis back in business. We didn’t have anyone to direct it, so I said to Fran, ‘You wrote it, you should shoot it.’ So she went in for a day and she wrote and directed a scene which has become pretty famous now.By Dan Selcke 10 months ago Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in The Lord of the Rings movies, watched The Rings of Power on Amazon. The director continued, “Fran wrote a scene where Sam and Frodo are asleep, so they can be just lumps in the bed, we don’t even have to have Elijah and Sean. But we hadn’t got a scene where you really got the idea of it… ‘This guy is two people.’ So we knew that we needed it but we had no time to shoot it.” “A key thing with Gollum is that most people know he’s Sméagol and he’s Gollum, it’s like a split.

“We were shooting ‘Two Towers’ and it was introducing Gollum,” Jackson said. The scene in question is Gollum’s split-personality monologue from “The Two Towers,” which Jackson did not even direct himself. Peter Jackson revealed last year that Serkis’ performance is at the center of his favorite scene in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. It was an extraordinary time so many things came out of that experience and whether I like it or not that role lives with me on a daily basis. “I don’t think I could have handled the sort of fame ‘Lord of the Rings’ sparked if I’d been younger,” Serkis said.

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