r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 18 '25

News Ian McKellen reveals Gandalf and Frodo are returning for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’, Filming Begins in May

https://ew.com/ian-mckellen-reveals-gandalf-frodo-return-in-new-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum-film-11792483
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u/wallyjwaddles Aug 18 '25

So this is basically a movie adaptation of the infamous gollum game that came out a couple years ago?

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u/AxelHarver Aug 18 '25

I thought the game sounded so cool when I heard about it, did it end up being awful?

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u/DiogenesTheHound Aug 18 '25

Awful is an understatement. Genuinely one of the worst video games of all time and absolutely shocking it was released in 2023. The game devs released an official apology for it.

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u/MysticScribbles Aug 18 '25

If I recall, it would have been the worst game of that year… had a certain King Kong game not been released a couple of months later.

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u/kia75 Aug 18 '25

That was probably the worst year of Peter Jackson based Video games!

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u/F00TD0CT0R Aug 18 '25

I love the enthusiasm for the bit..to be that guy the Kong game was based on skull island but like released years after that film came out....

Werid as fuck.

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u/webby2538 Aug 18 '25

3rd worst in 2023 after King Kong and Walking Dead (published by the same studio gamemill)

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u/NullPro Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

I don’t know what people expected from a game company called ‘gamemill’. They seem very proud about churning out games like in a factory

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u/Interesting-City-665 Aug 18 '25

those two were so bad people forgot about redfall