He acted as second unit director for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, took the helm of Sony’s Marvel movie Venom: Let There Be Carnage and is set to direct a new animated version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.ĭespite all of his achievements since, however, Serkis has never left the world of Tolkien too far behind him. Serkis has also taken to directing, and took little time in establishing himself with some big movies. However, that was only the tip of the iceberg for Serkis and as an actor he has since gone on to appear in many big movies, including playing Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Supreme Leader Snoke in two Star Wars movies, Kino Loy in Star Wars: Andor and Alfred Pennyworth in The Batman. The Silmarillion shows how The Lord of the Rings was merely the endpoint of a far bigger and richly imagined story by the master of high fantasy.Having spent endless months portraying Gollum, Andy Serkis continued to play the roles of many CGI characters over the years that followed, including providing the motion capture for Peter Jackson’s King Kong remake, and returning to his apish actions playing Cesar in the Planet of the Apes movies.
These stories are rich yet complex, and the listener’s enjoyment will depend on their knowledge of the Tolkien universe and their ability to absorb a whole new set of people, places and legends (I’d advise having the text, with its maps, family trees and glossary, to hand). The actor Andy Serkis, famed for playing Gollum in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit and Lord of the Rings film series, is the narrator, bringing his customary clarity, gravitas and an impressive range of voices to Tolkien’s often dense prose.
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