CEO Carsten Fichtelmann and Senior Producer Kai Fiebig of Daedalic Entertainment have recently given an interview to EDGE magazine, where they spoke about their upcoming narrative-driven action adventure game based on the Lord of the Rings universe, called The Lords of the Rings – Gollum.
Senior Producer Kai Fiebig: We don’t want to displease the folks who have only seen the movies. But in short, he doesn’t look like Andy Serkis. We started with the person he was and then evolved him. You can see that this was once something like a human being, before the Ring corrupted him.
First of all they addressed the issue regarding the appearance of the Gollum. They said that he will not look like he does in Peter Jackson’s movies. According to the books, Tolkien never gave a size reference for Gollum. Also the first illustrations of the Gollum picture him huge, but I doubt they will go that way.
Senior Producer Kai Fiebig: It’s not just choosing to be Sméagol or Gollum, because for Gollum as an entity it’s not that easy. Each personality is being attacked by the other; each has to defend himself.
We are also going to see some Nazgûl, but according to Art Director Mathias Fischer there will be the ‘less cool’ Nazgûl. That means no Witch-king or any other Nazgûl we saw in the movies or games. Sorry Talion, you are out.
The game has been confirmed as a 2021 release. You can read the whole interview here.
Thanks EDGE magazine and Wccftech.
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an excellent time to show how diversity is our strength, gollum should look like a black transgender man.
He’s already mentally ill, dont need to make his life worse.
excuse me? are you implying that blacks are mentally ill?
13/52
why 52?
DC Comics…duh
i don’t read comics, i have no idea what he means.
OK…is about some known percent…and this is my last offtopic, sorry..
13% commits 52% of all violent crime, guess who?
whites.
lmao poor guy, try again.
The big problem is mainly that USA is, like Russia or China, a trash country.
I grew up in a small town in switzerland, my first impression of east coast was that it looks as if a third world country had access to a first world country money and technology, truly disgusting place and people. rudeness of their people reminds me of southern european immigrants in switzerland. they behave identically, like a bunch of vile apes.
We just need more whites and less immigrants.
WE WAS KANGZ MAN, ITS THE JUICE!!!
Wtf is going on in New York?
Ha! nice try…
DAS RIGHT!!!
booooo
Reported.
Reeeeeetarded.
Snowflake
for what?
have you guys seen how sjws talk about mental illness representation as if its a good thing to be mentally ill?
For them is a virtue, for business is poison.
i don’t know, look at a mirror and tell us how you feel.
i don’t know, look at a mirror and tell us how you feel.
weak
you’re saying that because i made you realize you have mental illness.
dont you read twitter? Mental illness is a good thing these days.
and you have one so why complain?
what is it?
yes
I hate sjw’s as much as anyone, but not every story has to have a comment about it. Sill want this to be a gaming focused site. That being said, I am trying to understand what is the unique idea behind any of this that made someone think, “yeah, we need to make an entire game around it?”. Is this some adventure type game?
correction: “black transgender woman”
are you sure he is a woman?
Wait what, lets rewind ???? How else Gollum should look ?? Please enlighten me ? ? What an actual f@@@k ???
I think it should look like a…. a pigeon.
That’ll teach them
😛
Hopefully as a black non-binary transgender lesbian.
So,we wuz kangz gollum?or gender swap gollum just like Ghostbusters 2009 movies?
please respect your dark skin brethren.
“Gollum won’t look like he does in Peter Jackson’s movies”
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c422b3e6817e68d530b2e67fd29ecdd4d833ed765f662603974b1afe3694a926.jpg
horseface
Also starring in Control!
6 Buthurt woke soy drinking SJW losers thumbed this 100% True historically accurate image down.
SALTY
I effin love the Gollum from LOTR movies…its an amazing piece of creative design! And they effin wanna change that?! GTFO!
It sounds like a matter of licensing. If the game is licensed as an adaptation of the books rather than the movies, they don’t have the rights to blatantly copy the movies’ designs.
Why not? It might end up being even better. Don’t fear new things, new apporaches. Give them a chance.
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