Is 'The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies' Peter Jackson's Last Dance With JRR Tolkien?

  • 03 December 2014

He’s the man who brought the Lord of the Rings trilogy to the big screen and he’s just released the final instalment of The Hobbit, but Peter Jackson could be finally finished with adapting the work of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Image caption Will Ian McKellen get to play Gandalf the Grey again?

However Ian McKellen, who has played Gandalf in all six of Jackson’s Tolkien adaptations, feels more optimistic about visiting Middle-earth again on the big screen. Speaking at The Battle of the Five Armies premiere, the actor said he was “not sure” the final Hobbit film will actually be "the end of the journey.