Andy Serkis will not only reprise Gollum but will sit in the director’s chair for the upcoming spinoff. It may have been over a decade since the last time the British actor channeled the two-sided character, but he said his famed role still hasn’t escaped him.

On Warner Bros. Discovery’s first-quarter earnings conference call on Thursday, CEO David Zaslav said that the company is “now in the early stages of script development” for new Lord of the Rings movies, which he says they “anticipate releasing in 2026” and will “explore storylines yet to be told.”

Per Variety, Peter Jackson, director of the original “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and the prequel “Hobbit” trilogy, is a producer of the film, and “will be involved every step of the way,” as stated by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.