The Lord of the Rings will return to the big screen in 2027 with Andy Serkis' The Hunt for Gollum, and it's already setting itself up for success.

The director explained that "every New Zealand schoolchild has a fascination with the moa," a flightless bird similar to an ostrich that went extinct 600 years ago.

In a “Jurassic Park”-esque fashion, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson and the Texas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences are partnering to “de-extinct” the centuries-extinct New Zealand bird known as the moa.