After making two profitable and well-liked Kingdom Come role-playing video games, Czech developer Warhorse is reportedly going to make a The Lord of the Rings sport subsequent. That is unconfirmed for now, however the builders just lately reacted to the rumor throughout a latest Reddit AMA.
Requested concerning the Lord of the Rings rumors, Warhorse stated, “We can’t actually disclose our future plans 🙂 However we’re staying in RPG style!” The developer added, “Like all good sport studio, we’re engaged on a brand new sport. We do not need to stray removed from what we all know, so we’ll be sticking with RPGs for now.”
Pressed in one other query to say if the brand new mission is a The Lord of the Rings sport, Warhorse stated, “We’re onerous at work on … one thing. I can’t disclose particulars however I can inform it’s a enormous, immersive RPG.”
The rumor of the brand new The Lord of the Rings sport stemmed from the Tolkien Polska podcast.
Warhorse is owned by Plaion, which itself is a subsidiary of Embracer Group, and that firm owns the gaming rights to The Lord of the Rings. Past the potential of a brand new The Lord of the Rings sport from Warhorse, it is also been reported that one other Embracer-owned studio, Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics, is making a brand new The Lord of the Rings sport as properly.
Embracer stated in 2024 that it was prototyping a number of new concepts for The Lord of the Rings video games. Earlier than that, Embracer’s Lord of the Rings boss, Lee Guinchard, spoke about how he wants there to be a renaissance for Lord of the Rings games, so it would not be stunning if multiple new The Lord of the Rings sport was within the works.
The franchise basically has remained common, and a number of new The Lord of the Rings motion pictures are within the works as properly. The first of those is 2027’s The Hunt for Gollum, which brings again Andy Serkis as Gollum in a movie that he will even direct.
The film will even see Ian McKellen come again as Gandalf and Elijah Wooden return as Frodo. Oscar-winner Kate Winslet will play Marigol, with Fifty Shades of Gray actor Jamie Dornan taking up the position of Strider/Aragorn. The White Lotus actor Leo Woodall will play Halvard and Lee Tempo will play Thranduil, reprising his position from The Hobbit motion pictures.
Actor, comic, TV host, and The Lord of the Rings super-fan Stephen Colbert can be writing a The Lord of the Rings film to come back that’s based mostly on the “Fogs on the Barrow-downs” chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring. It’ll characteristic a personality lacking from Peter Jackson’s trilogy: Tom Bombadil.