{"id":420161,"date":"2026-01-21T05:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420161\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:08:07","slug":"lord-of-the-rings-star-andy-serkis-wants-original-cast-back-for-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420161\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; Star Andy Serkis Wants Original Cast Back For New Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          &#8216;LOTR&#8217; Star Andy Serkis<br \/>\n                          OG Cast Is Precious, Love &#8216;Em For New Flick<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              January 20, 2026<br \/>\n                            5:54 PM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fb6e163b1d5d44b2b269c1a97d670a91_md.jpg\" alt=\"andy-serkis-kal-01-20-2026\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZ.com<\/p>\n<p>Andy Serkis is dropping hints about the cast for a new movie in &#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217; franchise &#8230; and it sounds like he went to bat to get the band back together.<\/p>\n<p>We got the guy who plays Gollum in the &#8216;LOTR&#8217; trilogy at LAX on Tuesday and asked about the new movie he&#8217;s directing and starring in, &#8220;The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For Gollum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andy&#8217;s reprising his role as Gollum and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/ian-mckellen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian McKellen<\/a> is returning as Gandalf, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/elijah-wood\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elijah Wood<\/a> expected back as Frodo Baggins &#8230; and while Andy didn&#8217;t want to give too much away as far as cast, he did go on the record saying he &#8220;loved&#8221; the OG cast, which also featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/viggo-mortensen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viggo Mortensen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/orlando-bloom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Bloom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gotta respect Andy for playing it close to the vest here, but watch the clip and you can read between the lines for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;LOTR&#8217; fans packed theaters this weekend to watch the trilogy on the 25th anniversary of Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring&#8221; &#8230; and Andy says it&#8217;s a good sign for the new movie, which is due out in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;LOTR&#8217; Star Andy Serkis OG Cast Is Precious, Love &#8216;Em For New Flick Published January 20, 2026 5:54&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-420161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}