NICHOLAS HOULT TO PLAY YOUNG JRR TOLKIEN IN A BIOPIC? SONY'S 'STAR' FIRST CHRISTMAS ANIMATED MOVIE TEASER IS HERE!

  'TOLKIEN' BIOPIC

NICHOLAS HOULT TO PLAY THE FATHER OF MIDDLE EARTH?

A piece of movie news that stormed the net yesterday, about Finnish movie maker Dome Karukoski directing a movie about famous

Hoult is also Nikola Tesla in The Current War

JRR TOLKIEN, the author of mankind's most beloved epic fantasy tale Lord of the Rings, is today getting a new angle, as the speculations that young Nicholas Hoult might be playing him, have started spreading around the web. 'The Hollywood Reporter' says that he is already negotiating with Fox Searchlight and Chernin Entertain- ment who are producing. This is interesting since Hoult is already playing another writer in his youth - J.D. Salinger in upcoming biopic Rebel in the Rye! TOLKIEN will take place at the outset of WWI following the orphaned author as he befriends a group of outsiders at school just in time for the war to threaten to tear them apart. As you know, the man who invented the Middle Earth was the author of The Hobbit, Silmarilion and Lord of the Rings sagas which became Hollywood blockbusters. 

   'STAR' ANIMATED TRAILER

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS EVER

Meanwhile, in the animated movie department, Sony has finally released the first teaser trailer for their Christmas 2017 animated

Zachary Levi lends his voice to Joseph

movie STAR and maybe they shouldn't have - it looks shockingly cheap, like some straight to DVD flick for kids. The story of first Christmas should arrive into cinemas this November, just in the right time for the holiday season! The voice cast includes Zachary Levi, Christopher Plummer and Oprah Winfrey as a camel. 

THE STAR follows a small but brave donkey named Bo who yearns for a life beyond his daily grind at the village mill. One day he finds the courage to break free, and finally goes on the

The Star will shine this Holiday Season!

adventure of his dreams. On his journey, he teams up with Ruth, a lovable sheep who has lost her flock, and Dave, a dove with lofty

Mariah Carey will sing the title song for the movie

aspirations. Along with three wisecracking camels and some eccentric stable animals, Bo and his new friends follow THE STAR and become unlikely heroes in the greatest story ever told – the first Christmas.