A new trailer has been released for Fox Searchlight's film Tolkien, "the true story of the magical world's one-of-a-kind creator," Deadline reported. Nicholas Hoult stars as author J.R.R. Tolkien, "born in South Africa, raised in England and elevated to immortality on millions of bookshelves around the world with the publications of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy."
Directed by Dome Karukoski from a script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford, the movie follows the author "through a hardscrabble childhood, into the battlefields of World War I and through the corridors of academia where he studied linguistics but eventually became a historian of the unreal," Deadline wrote.
The cast also includes Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts, Laura Donnelly, Genevieve O'Reilly, Pam Ferris and Derek Jacobi. Fox Searchlight will release Tolkien to theaters on May 10.