{"id":6549,"date":"2026-07-15T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=6549"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:18:37","slug":"andy-serkis-directs-the-hunt-for-gollum-in-character-see-the-set-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=6549","title":{"rendered":"Andy Serkis Directs &#8216;The Hunt For Gollum&#8217; In Character: See The Set Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWarner Bros. has released footage from the set of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum\" data-tag=\"the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum\">The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum<\/a><\/em>. In it, we follow the director\/star as he transforms back into the titular character. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe video begins as Serkis makes his way onto the set in a motion-capture suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOstensibly, it\u2019s the first day of shooting. Serkis checks in saying, \u201cWhat are we going to start with?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAt the beginning,\u201d hears back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe he asks, thumbing through what looks like a script, \u201cWho\u2019s up?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe reply: \u201cYou are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSerkis then moves to the middle of the room, crouches down atop a box and says in a familiar rattling voice, \u201cAnd\u2026Action!\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYou can watch it below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum | Start of Production\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g5Rc_MTTO9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn 2024, Serkis <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/05\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum-peter-jackson-andy-serkis-philippa-boyens-explain-23-years-after-cannes-saved-original-trilogy-1235917510\/\">told Deadline<\/a> he was excited to revisit the character, given all the advances in motion capture since the last film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAt that time, the motion capture technology back then was pretty much restricted to interior sets and it was just motion capture. Throughout the course of the evolution of the technology through the [<em>Planet of the<\/em>]\u00a0<em>Apes<\/em>\u00a0movies, it changed,\u201d Serkis said. \u201cFor instance, we were able to untether it from a volume and allow real performance capture, because in those three films, the first three films, the facial was all animated, copying my facial expressions. But it wasn\u2019t driven by a performance capture, the delicacy and the nuance that was then able to be caught using head-mounted cameras. During the\u00a0<em>Apes\u00a0<\/em>movies is when the real experimentation began with going outdoors and shooting on location. And those are the big movies. And obviously Jim Cameron was working on his<em>\u00a0Avatar\u00a0<\/em>movies alongside Weta. They were pushing the nuances of facial performance with facial capture as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s story, much of it developed from Tolkien\u2019s appendices, is set between\u00a0<em>The Hobbit\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>.\u00a0<em>The Hunt for Gollum\u00a0<\/em>follows Aragorn\u2019s perilous quest to capture Gollum before the creature can reveal the One Ring\u2019s location to Sauron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile Serkis hasn\u2019t revealed much more about the plot, he did recently tell the BBC, \u201cThe hunt takes place in two different dimensions really and that\u2019s about as far as I can say at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. has released footage from the set of The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. In it, we follow the director\/star as he transforms back into the titular character. The video begins as Serkis makes his way onto the set in a motion-capture suit. Ostensibly, it\u2019s the first day of shooting. 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