After seeing a new trailer for The Lord of the Rings (2025) starring Tom Holland, fans are wondering whether it’s real or fake. Will it be released next year? Here’s everything you need to know.
Is Tom Holland’s The Lord of the Rings trailer for 2025 real or fake?
A new trailer for a Lord of the Rings movie featuring Tom Holland has gone viral across social media, accumulating close to 1 million views on YouTube at the time of writing. But it is not real and uses AI-generated footage to project Tom Holland’s face on Elijah Wood’s Frodo. It also presents Jacob Batalon as Sam, replacing Sean Astin’s face with his.
Watch the trailer here:
The trailer was published on the KH Studio YouTube channel on May 5. The channel is known to create concept trailers using old footage from past movies and other deepfake AI shots. As described by the channel, its trailer for The Lord of the Rings (2025) is another example of this. But no live-action Lord of the Rings movie has been put in development, so it cannot arrive in 2025.
Will Tom Holland and Jacob Batalon appear in The Lord of the Rings (2025)?
Tom Holland and Jacob Batalon will not appear in The Lord of the Rings (2025) as no such movie was greenlit. Instead, the two actors will reunite in Sony’s Spider-Man 4 for the MCU. Meanwhile, there are other Lord of the Rings projects in development.
2024 will see the launch of an animated prequel movie titled The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. It is set to arrive on December 13. Furthermore, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 is expected to hit Prime Video next year or in 2026.
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