Among the most notable of this news we found the return of Peter Jacksonthe director behind the successful film trilogy of The Lord of the rings and the subsequent trilogy The Hobbit, who returns in his role as producer. A director who will be accompanied by Andy Serkisan actor who played Gollum in this universe and who helped co-direct the films of The Hobbitwho now sits in the director’s chair.
What Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis said about the new Lord of the Rings movie
“The character of Gollum/Sméagol has always fascinated me. Gollum reflects the worst of human nature, while Sméagol is quite sympathetic.. “I think it connects with both readers and movie audiences, because there’s a little bit of both in all of us,” Peter Jackson recently told Deadline.
“We want to explore his backstory and delve into those parts of his journey that we didn’t have time to cover in the previous films. It’s too early to know who will cross his path, but suffice it to say that we will follow Tolkien’s lead,” he teases. the New Zealander about the new film.
Serkis adds to these words, who was “stunned” when he received the call to direct the film. “Gollum has been with me all these years. I’ve read audiobooks of the trilogy, as well as The Silmarillion and The Hobbit, so Tolkien’s world never left me in all that time since we made the first films“.
Serkis confesses that this character has always been “a very important part” of his career, which is why he is excited about this new stage as a filmmaker after his work on the films Breathe (2017), Mowgli: The legend of the jungle (2018) and Venom: There will be carnage (2021).
Likewise, Serkis states that he is “interested in investigating at a deeper level who that character is”, always within the canon, but looking for something that is “fresh, new and with a different approach”.
“At the time, motion capture technology was practically restricted to indoor settings and at that time it was only motion capture,” says the director, who praises the franchise’s current CGI. Avatar of James Cameron or the new movie Planet of the Apes.
“Technology has reached a level where authoring performances allows you to internalize more without any sense of overacting,” he adds.
Source: Ambito
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