According to Deadline, Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski (The Home of Dark Butterflies) is set to direct Tolkien, a biopic of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien. The project is being produced by Chernin Entertainment for Fox Searchlight, and is based on a script from David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. The film […]
Nicholas Hoult in talks for J.R.R. Tolkien biopic
It looks like Nicholas Hoult could be following up his role as J.D. Salinger in Rebel in the Rye by potraying another legendary author, with Variety reporting that he is in talks to play J.R.R. Tolkien in the biopic Tolkien. The film is set to be directed by Dome Karukoski (The Home of Dark Butterflies) and […]
Celebrating The Lord of the Rings Trilogy on its 15th Anniversary
Ricky Church celebrates the 15th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy… 15 years ago today, audiences worldwide were introduced to Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings. I had just started high school when The Fellowship of the Ring was getting ready to hit theaters and my […]
A huge Lord of the Rings lawsuit has been settled
A substantial lawsuit between Warner Bros. and the Tolkien estate has been settled over The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The dispute between the two parties started back in 2012 when the Tolkien estate alleged that the studio did not have the rights to licence the books’ characters for online slot machines and […]
James Strong to direct J.R.R. Tolkien biopic Middle Earth
Deadline is reporting that James Strong (Broadchurch, Downton Abbey) has signed on to direct the J.R.R. Tolkien biopic Middle Earth, which will explore the tumultuous events that inspired the classic fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Middle Earth has been scripted by Angus Fletcher and “follows Tolkien’s early life and love […]
Colm Meaney joins the cast of Tolkien
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Colm Meaney has joined the cast of the upcoming J.R.R. Tolkien biopic, Tolkien. He joins X-Men: Apocalypse’s Nicholas Hoult and To The Bones‘ Lily Collins in the film with, Dome Karukoski directing from a script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. Per Deadline, Meaney will portray Father Francis, one of Tolkien’s school teachers. Tolkien will […]
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Beren and Lúthien set for publication in 2017
Publisher HarperCollins has announced that it is to publish J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth love story Beren and Lúthien in May 2017, some 100 years after Tolkien first penned the tale, and on the tenth anniversary of the most recent Middle-earth book, The Children of Húrin. The book, which will be edited by Christopher Tolkien with illustrations […]
New J.R.R. Tolkien Middle-earth tale The Story of Kullervo to be published this August
The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien has announced that the unreleased Middle-earth tale The Story of Kullervo is set for publication this August. Check out the cover art, followed by the official description: Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters. ‘Hapless Kullervo’, as Tolkien called him, is […]
