Rings of Power Showrunner Says Series Is 'in Conversation' With The Hunt for Gollum
Patrick McKay said there is room in Middle-earth for everybody and that his team hopes the Gollum film is great, according to gamesradar.com.
Patrick McKay, showrunner of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, said the Prime Video series is in conversation with the upcoming film The Hunt for Gollum, according to gamesradar.com.
McKay said there is room in Middle-earth for everybody, and that the team hopes The Hunt for Gollum is great. He also noted that many artists across many mediums have interpreted the material over 75 years.
The two projects sit in different periods of the same fictional history. The Rings of Power is set in the Second Age, while The Hunt for Gollum takes place thousands of years later in the Third Age, between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Season 3 of The Rings of Power depicts Sauron in the process of forging the One Ring. The Hunt for Gollum draws on material from the appendices of the original Lord of the Rings novel, where Gandalf sends a younger Aragorn to find Gollum.
Quick answers
Is The Rings of Power connected to The Hunt for Gollum?
Showrunner Patrick McKay said the series is in conversation with the film, while noting that the two are set in different ages of Middle-earth.
When is The Hunt for Gollum set?
The film is set in the Third Age, thousands of years after the Second Age setting of The Rings of Power, between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.