Browsing: j. r. r. tolkien

Leave it to George R. R. Martin to continue a literary magic user debate during a Q & A, because that’s exactly what he did during the official premiere of Fox Searchlight’s Tolkien. “Gandalf could kick Dumbledore’s ASS,” the Song of Ice and Fire author exclaimed during his chat with Nicholas Hoult (J. R. R. Tolkien in the […]

Fox Searchlight has released a first-look teaser trailer for their upcoming Tolkien film, starring Nicholas Hoult as “Lord of the Rings” author J. R. R. Tolkien, and Lilly Collins as Tolkien’s wife, Edith Bratt. 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 […]

We’re pretty excited to get a glimpse of Nicholas Hoult as The Hobbit, Lord of The Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien in the upcoming Fox Searchlight biopic, Tolkien. After being announced some time ago, updates were few and far between for the project. Earlier this month, Fox Searchlight finally shared a release date for the film, and today […]

We’ve been waiting for news about the Amazon Studios Lord of the Rings television series, and today the streaming service revealed that JD Dayne and Patrick McKay are currently developing one. The pair were selected after an exhaustive search sources report, and will be overseeing a writers room for the first (of possibly additional) series set in the world […]

Amazon Studios CEO Jeff Bezos is apparently in talks with the Tolkien estate as well as Warner Bros. TV to house a Lord of the Rings TV series. No, seriously — this is not a joke. Variety just broke the exclusive news they claim to have sources on, stating things are still in the “early stages”, with “no deal […]