The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Stars Kate Winslet in Major Role

Titanic prima Kate Winslet volition play a large quality successful The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.

A study published contiguous by Deadline described Winslet's unannounced quality arsenic the film's pistillate lead, though precisely who she's playing remains nether wraps.

Winslet was seemingly wooed into taking the relation implicit the past twelvemonth by The Hunt for Gollum manager and prima Andy Serkis, arsenic good arsenic The Lord of the Rings trilogy manager Peter Jackson, who is serving arsenic a shaper this clip around.

Kate Winslet. Image credit: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

Jackson and Winslet antecedently worked unneurotic successful New Zealand years agone connected 1994 movie Heavenly Creatures. This clip around, it's reported that Winslet plans to bring her household to New Zealand with her, for astir six months of shooting acceptable to instrumentality spot this twelvemonth betwixt May and October.

Winslet's relation is the archetypal caller quality announced to beryllium joining the movie, pursuing the erstwhile confirmation that Ian McKellen was returning successful his legendary relation of Gandalf, portion Elijah Wood has repeatedly hinted helium is besides backmost arsenic Frodo. Indeed, earlier this week Wood said the movie felt similar getting "the set backmost together" and that helium didn't privation anyone other playing Frodo "as agelong arsenic I'm live and able."

Set betwixt The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hunt for Gollum expands upon the little country successful Fellowship wherever Gollum is seen being pressed for answers connected the Ring's whereabouts, arsenic good arsenic a little communicative outline for the play from Middle-earth maestro J.R.R. Tolkien that mentions immoderate of the different characters besides searching for the celebrated ringing of power.

It's during this play that Sauron narrows his ain hunt for the Ring, portion some Gandalf and Aragorn contention to way it down first. Exactly however each this volition slot into Fellowship, whether Viggo Mortensen is besides backmost arsenic Aragorn, and however the movie volition grip the information that each of these actors are present 20 years older remains to beryllium seen.

Indeed Legolas histrion Orlando Bloom has antecedently expressed involvement successful an appearance, though suggested "AI would person to travel into play." As for Mortensen, the Aragorn histrion has said helium is besides unfastened to returning.

The Hunt for Gollum is acceptable to motorboat successful theaters connected December 17, 2027.

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