More Lord of the Rings is cynical and unnecessary – Peter Jackson has Gollum too far this time
Look to the east at dawn, and you can see The Lord of the Rings returning. But it won’t be like Ian McKellen’s Gandalf at the climax of , bathed in light and triumphant. No, this time, the fantasy franchise is slinking back into view, head cowed. What kind of reception it’ll get is still very much unclear. On Thursday, it was announced that Peter Jackson, the director of the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003), is returning, who played the digitally animated Gollum in the original trilogy, will be , with the first film in the planned series tentatively titled . That’s more or less all we know.
