Andy Serkis

“I’m very excited to go back again and to revisit that world with my film-making friends, who I've known now for so many years. So, I'll be going back in a couple of months and we start preparation and then we start shooting. The film will be released in December 27”. Andy Serkis is ready to come back to the Middle-earth of "The Lord of the Rings" saga for playing the role of Gollum and directing the movie dedicated to this character. Doing both it will not be a problem for him: “I know Gollum so well, you know. He's a creature he owns me”, says Serkis to FredFilmRadio during the 8th edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival. The British actor talks about how he started directing: “I was about to direct a small independent film when Peter Jackson asked me to come and direct the second unit on The Hobbit. So, we were just starting a company The Imaginarium. It was like, wow, this is a huge challenge to suddenly work with an enormous crew, shooting in 3D, 48 frames a second, in complicated fight sequences”. About new technologies and AI “Artificial Intelligence was used in the day on Lord of the Rings - Serkis says about how technologies change in these last years, using also AI - There was a programme called Massive which enabled all of the battle sequences, for instance, in Helm's Deep, to have each individual character of thousands and thousands of orcs have their own minds, you know, walking around and doing different things to each other. So, that kind of technology has been used for some time. I mean, we, with every film of this scale, new technologies are being evolved constantly”. The Batman 2 We’ll see Serkis playing again the role of Alfred Pennyworth in "The Batman 2" directed by Matt Reeves: “I worked with Matt in two of the Apes movies and we became very close friends. He said he wanted to write a character for me where we see my face. So he wrote the relationship between Alfred and Bruce Wayne as a very emotional relationship. The father that he could never be. He does not possess a parental bone in his body. He just doesn't know how to do that. He can only teach skills. But he feels he ought to be the father for Bruce, but he just can't be. So it's a lovely dynamic and quite a painful dynamic between them”.

Total Film 00.00– 04.40 Intro 04.45 – 44.30 Review of The Batman including exclusive interviews with cast members Colin Farrell, Andy Serkis, Jeffrey Wright and Paul Dano 44.40 – 50.40 Review of Ali & Ava 50.50 – 53.50 Plain talking – Time to dissect some film set lingo 54.00 – 01.02.30 Review of The Sanctity of Space 01.02.40 – 01.07.30 Alternative line reading 01.07.40 – 01.14.35 Reader’s question followed by Outro

The cast of The Batman joins The Backstage Experience! Dave & David go backstage with the entire lead cast of The Batman to discuss Matt Reeves' new adaptation, Pattinson's Kurt Cobain inspiration, Paul Dano's Joker, Andy Serkis acting & directing, and more! The Batman is in theaters Friday, March 4th! *Featured in the episode* Colin Farrell & John Turturo (06:45) Paul Dano & Jeffrey Wright (16:21) Andy Serkis (22:00) Robert Pattinson & Zoe Kravitz (29:30)

Dominic and Anthony look back at their first year of Hero Nation, and recap some of their favorite moments, with Angela King, A.C. Bradley, Rami Malek, Andy Serkis, Simu Liu and Colman Domingo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Career Q&A with Andy Serkis on November 7, 2014. Moderated by Scott Mantz, Access Hollywood. Andy Serkis is known to millions of fans for his portrayal of the depraved creature Gollum in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, as the giant ape Kong in Jackson's King Kong and as Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. For his portrayal of the revolutionary chimpanzee Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Andy received a Virtuoso Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and was nominated as Best Supporting Actor by the film critics associations of Houston, San Diego and the Washington Area as well as the 2011 Satellite Awards and the BFCA Critics' Choice Movie Awards. He reprised his role as Caesar in 2014's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Andy earned the Evening Standard Film Award for Best Actor for his tour-de-force portrayal of rocker Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. He scored nominations for the Emmy and the Golden Globe for playing murderer Ian Brady in Longford and earned the Empire Award for Best British Actor for The Return of the King. Along the way he's portrayed Albert Einstein, Vincent van Gogh and, in Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy, the madcap choreographer John D'Auban. In recent years, Andy has branched into other aspects of entertainment. He's directed a short film, Snake and a stage play, The Double Bass. He was Second Unit Director of The Hobbit. He's been active as a writer, director and performer in some of the most successful video games. Andy formed Caveman Films to produce independent films in UK, and The Imaginarium Studios in London to bring performance capture and other technology to bear on the performing arts.

'Joker' has so far earned nearly a whopping $1Billion making it the most profitable comic book movie and we discuss what this could mean for Warner Bros and the future of the DC franchise! Also on DC 'The Batman' cast is ever expanding with talks from both Andy Serkis and Colin Farrell joining the ranks and we get our second trailer for 'Bad Boys for Life'! All this and more!

On episode 27 of The Geek Buddies, John Rocha, Michael Vogel and Shannon McClung discuss the recent reports that Andy Serkis is in talks to play Alfred to Robert Pattinson's The Batman with Colin Farrell also having discussions about taking the role of The Penguin. The buddies also discuss the latest efforts by Warner Brothers to revitalize the Fantastic Beasts franchise, the new synopsis for PIXAR's Soul, and what lessons will studios take about their IP after the disappointment of Terminator: Dark Fate. All that and more of the boys signature banter on another fun and unfiltered episode of The Geek Buddies! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! #TheBatman #FantasticBeasts #TerminartorDarkFate --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-geek-buddies/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Intergalactic Candycast, the worlds first interstellar radio comedy, podcast parody, and one-man improv sketch all rolled into one! Join Atticus and his crew as they explore the universe, help friends, sing songs, and interview celebrity guests...kinda! In this week's episode, Atticus monkeys around with Andy Serkis, Baby gets poetic, and the crew learns that every angel has a halo! Support the show

Our latest episode of Soundtracking is another live event, recorded at the British Film Institute in London with writer, director & actor Andy Serkis and musician Nitin Sawhney. The pair have collaborated on several occasions, most recently on Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle, Andy's performance capture reimagining of The Jungle Book. It's available to watch now via Netflix, and if you haven't seen it already we highly recommend it. Nitin also provided the score for Breathe - Andy's directorial debut. As alway's, you'll hear plenty of music from both films during the conversation and plenty more besides.

Yoda, Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster, King Kong, Gollum, and more – Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Adam Conover, astrophysicist Charles Liu, and Bill Nye explore the world of puppeteering and performance capture with Frank Oz and Andy Serkis. Listen you will. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/from-puppets-to-performance-capture-with-frank-oz-and-andy-serkis/ Photo Credit: muppet.wikia.com [CC BY-SA 3.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 ) Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of StarTalk Radio ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus .