Cinema is heading back to Middle-earth, with Warner Bros. and New Line signing a deal to make more adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s chief executive, David Zaslav, announced on Thursday on an earnings call that a deal had been brokered to make “multiple” films based on JRR Tolkien’s books. The cost of the deal with Embracer Group, the Swedish gaming company that owns the rights to most of Tolkien’s world, has yet to be revealed.
The films will be developed through the Warner Bros production company New Line Cinema, which produced the
