The Lord of the Rings : The Hunt for Gollum

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Before the Fellowship, one creature’s obsession holds the key to Middle-earth’s survival — or its demise. In The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, we meet young Smeagol — an outsider drawn to trinkets and mischief — long before The One Ring consumed him and began his tragic descent into the tortured, deceitful creature Gollum. With the ring lost and carried away by Bilbo Baggins, Gollum finds himself compelled to leave his cave in search of it.

Gandalf the Grey calls upon Aragorn, still known as the ranger Strider, to track the elusive creature whose knowledge of the whereabouts of the ring could tip the balance toward the Dark Lord Sauron. Set in the shadowed time between Bilbo’s birthday disappearance and the Fellowship’s formation, this perilous journey through Middle-earth’s darkest corners reveals untold truths, tests the resolve of its future king, and explores the fractured soul and backstory of Gollum, one of Tolkien’s most enigmatic characters.

Directed by original cast member Andy Serkis, produced by Peter Jackson, and written & produced by Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens — the creative team behind the Oscar-winning trilogy — this live-action movie bridges the beloved films with new characters, returning heroes, and a deeply engaging origin story that resets the stage for, and changes everything you know about the legendary Lord of the Rings trilogy.

"I feel like just [recently], someone articulated what the premise of the film is... Like, the actual logline of the movie and in more detail. So, that's cool. It's out there in the world. So, it's essentially following Gollum, and it's a little bit of the backstory of Smeagol, and understanding a little bit more deeply where he came from... And then [the film is] tracking him with Rangers, who have been tasked to track him, because he's got this sort of... he carries with him, as he's tortured. We see that a little bit in Lord of the Rings, where he's tortured, and he sort of says, 'Shire Baggins,' which alerts Sauron to the Shire, because otherwise, it was not a place he was ever considering looking for."