Fox Searchlight Releases Second Trailer for ‘Tolkien’ Starring Nicholas Holt

Last month, Fox Searchlight released the first trailer for their upcoming “Lord of the Rings” author J R R Tolkien biopic, Tolkien. It stars Nicholas Hoult as the man who creates Middle Earth, and it looks pretty freaking great.

Just this morning, a second trailer was released for the film:

Dome Karukosk is directing the film, which will reportedly follow J. R. R.’s time as a student obsessive about language and an outsider who searched for belonging. He found it with school chums Christopher Wiseman (Tom Glynn-Carney), Geoffrey Bache Smith (Anthony Boyle) and Robert Quilter Gilson (Patrick Gibson) who are all finding their way in the world, according to Hoult. Lilly Collins plays Tolkien’s wife, Edith Bratt.

Their close-knit group, calling themselves the Tea Club and Barrovian Society, “gave the confidence to chase his dreams”, and followed him into World War I.

We’ll see the Battle of Somme according to USA Today, including Tolkien’s contracting trench fever. Hoult teases “mythical elements” during this fever dream, “There’s this darker imagination that he hasn’t quite managed to get a grasp on.”

Tolkien will hit the UK and Ireland on May 3rd, and US theaters on May 10th, 2019.