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[StreetsofBeige]

It's got to be some more spinoff kinds of movies. I dont follow the franchise, so whatever spinoff storylines they can make after those Hobbit movies I dont know.

Imagine if Elijah Wood and Sean Astin reprised their roles. Wood and Astin are about 40 and 50 years old. Viggo Mortenson is 64.

 

[KyoZz]

Nothing more to add than what was said previously. I have zero faith this will be good.

Good luck to the director:

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Warner, I’ll give you advice free of charge. Redo all the FX work on the existing trilogy in Avatar quality , rerelease to cinemas and make the same amount of cash, or more, you would do with a new production.

 

[Musashipan]

Give me a movie or series starting from the Ainulindalë till the Dagor Dagorath, directed by PJ, no woke shit.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Warner, I’ll give you advice free of charge. Redo all the FX work on the existing trilogy in Avatar quality , rerelease to cinemas and make the same amount of cash, or more, you would do with a new production.

Amen to that.

I watched most of the first movie again as it was showing on a movie channel.

Looking back, I didn't realize how bad the CGI is. Most of the parts in the Dwarven mine are atrocious like its badly animated video game characters running in a cave.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

no

Not even if James Mangold directs?

 

[pramod]

Whatever they do please no more elves doing the Neo Legolas Matrix shit

 

[NecrosaroIII]

God, I miss Christopher Tolkien.

 

[John Bilbo]

Imagine if Elijah Wood and Sean Astin reprised their roles. Wood and Astin are about 40 and 50 years old. Viggo Mortenson is 64.

This is going to happen isn't it?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I wouldn't mind them taking another crack at the Hobbit. It deserved better.

Hobbit is the antithesis of what the studio wants to make - it’s a jovial, homely tale written for kids. Movies had similar tone to the Lord of the Rings, while tonally the books are very different (you can see it in the first 80 pages of LotR, they were written as a follow-up to the Hobbit).

Anyway, terrible and shit idea. Why change perfection?

 

[John Bilbo]

Hobbit made with stop motion animation technics combined with touches of CGI could be interesting

 

[Cyberpunkd]

But why not? It doesn't have to end with Tolkien. If it's a well-planned, earnest endeavor with respect for the established lore, it could work.

Why everything has to take an established IP? Just come up with a new one. You will be slapping a well known title because you think the new work cannot stand on its own.

Leave the damn Tolkien alone ffs.

 

[Melon Husk]

Embracer bought the rights to LOTR? THQ Nordic? Huh?? What a weird development.

I'm always up for more LOTR games (Total War: War of the Ring please) but movies? Jackson's trilogy can never outdone, it will always hang around as a specter if they try to refilm the trilogy. It's best that these new films will try to leverage the popularity of the existing material... worst case scenario they make a sequel trilogy

Guys... guys... They have the rights to Tolkein's abandoned sequel idea The New Shadow. https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/The_New_Shadow The cunts are going to make a sequel to Lord Of The Rings, based on thirteen pages of half-assed development.

["I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the Downfall, but it proved both sinister and depressing." ...]
―from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter to Colin Bailey

Wow, this is perfect for modern day writers. Get the crew from new Star Treks on this ASAP!

It keeps going:

[... "So that the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless — while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors — like Denethor or worse."]



Oh John Tolkien. 100 years after The Downfall aka Great War this hits too close home

 

[Sybrix]

Americans: Let's squeeze every last little drop of fluid out of a francise until its as dead and dry as an 1700s witch's cunt.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I wonder if Peter Jackson is going to make some kind of silmarillion movie or a behren and luthien adaptation

 

[jufonuk]

More like Lord of the Bling amirite?

 

[Braag]

After Rings of Power I'm not looking forward to this. Hell, even the Hobbit movies were kinda meh.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

After Rings of Power I'm not looking forward to this. Hell, even the Hobbit movies were kinda meh.

Nope, i'm all for it. We know full well they cant write for shit but then again we get more gems like this..



Worth it's weight in gold.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Stop thinking so small. 13 pages... 13 movies!!!

Laughed just-like-this.

 

[Tams]

What could possibly go wrong!

 

[Catphish]

Why everything has to take an established IP? Just come up with a new one. You will be slapping a well known title because you think the new work cannot stand on its own.

Leave the damn Tolkien alone ffs.

I think the existing books should be left alone. They've been done, and done well. But there's nothing wrong with writing new material in the same universe.

 

[Umbasaborne]

Guess they are gonna milk tolkien for all hes worth. The trilogy is amazing, there is no need to adapt more stories in this world, especially if we can expect them to be as terrible as the hobbit films

 

[balls of snow]

Cant be worse than what Amazon shits out.
Right?

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

God help us.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Cant be worse than what Amazon shits out.
Right?

Someone, somewhere right now:

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

I liked Dune.

It could be a good adaptation but the movie was boring and I think I dozed off a few times in the theatre.

 

[Billbofet]

As a huge fan of the LotR trilogy, I don't think I would even watch this on a streaming service much less put the effort to see it in a theater.
While fantasy is not my favorite genre, I think it's just not a bankable genre anymore for movies. TV maybe, but the Amazon show pretty much offed that being a good idea.
I think similar to how WB killed off interest in Harry Potter movies with the awful Fantastic Beasts movies, this will have a similar reception but probably die off much quicker.
Just make new shit already.

 

[Superkewl]

Meh. I am at the point now where my default reaction is that they will ruin it. I don't even get worked up any more. I would love to be proven wrong though.

 

[TonyK]

Would Peter Jackson involved?

 

[NeoGiffer]

 

[Torrent of Pork]

TFW Jackson's LotR trilogy will be the last great film masterpiece ever made in my life.

 

[nightmare-slain]

Usually I am all for new content in stuff I love. but no... just no. the Jackson movies (not hobbit) are damn close to perfection. As a LOTR nerd I could get into some nitpicks but the movies are classics.

I won't lie. i will watch any new LOTR content but if it sucks then i'll not hesitate to immediately pretend that it doesn't exit.

Take Harry Potter for example. Love the shit out those books and movies but as soon as Cursed Child came out it was dead to me. It doesn't exist except when I need to shit on it. Fuck that shit so fucking much. (I'm talking about CC not HP as a whole)

 

[Kacho]

Meh. I am at the point now where my default reaction is that they will ruin it. I don't even get worked up any more. I would love to be proven wrong though.

Yeah, unless you're in the business of farming outrage on YouTube there's no point getting worked up about it. If they deliver something respectable, great. It will probably be trash though. Best to just sit back and laugh at the shitshow.

 

[NeoGiffer]

TFW Jackson's LotR trilogy will be the last great film masterpiece ever made in my life.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Oh fuck no.

 

[ManaByte]

Warner, I’ll give you advice free of charge. Redo all the FX work on the existing trilogy in Avatar quality , rerelease to cinemas and make the same amount of cash, or more, you would do with a new production.

Jackson already had WETA update the VFX for the 4K versions.

 

[SirKicksalot]

Jackson already had WETA update the VFX for the 4K versions.

There's still room for a 3D HFR conversion and a HFR remaster for The Hobbit.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Jackson already had WETA update the VFX for the 4K versions.

They scaled them up, not redo/remade them. They didnt even re-scan the film negatives in 4k. Its all upresed... I would want Avatar quality in their. Would see it in theaters and buy box sets again.

 

[Trunx81]

Tom Bombadil SpinOff with Ricky Gervais in the main role.

Make. It. Happen.

 

[SJRB]

Tom Bombadil SpinOff with Ricky Gervais in the main role.

Make. It. Happen.

Only if he walks around with his dog and trash talks kids and whatnot.

 

[Artoris]

Only if he walks around with his dog and trash talks kids and whatnot.

He has no dog but old man willow and barrow wights

 

[jason10mm]

The best I could hope for, outside of using the Silmarillion and giving us those classics, is getting the rights to Dennis McKiernans "Silver Call" pastiche of the dwarves going back to reclaim Moria with the help of the descendants of the OG hobb....errr, Warrows. Really good scenes with the battle of the Warder in the Lake, scaling across the chasm minus the bridge (lost with Gandolf vs the Balrog), etc. It would let them riff off the films but tell a new story.

 

[pramod]

The only reason i see for them to remake LoTR is to make Frodo gay and latinx.

 

[solidsheelop]

Good take on challenges to making a good LotR movie

 

[Nobody_Important]

Good take on challenges to making a good LotR movie

Badly photoshopped beard onto one of the few great characters from the RoP show that the internet weirdos complained about most for "reasons" despite the obvious good she did for the lore as well as the setting.


Definitely a trustworthy and unbiased source when it comes to someone complaining about people ruining the IP. Can't wait to watch.

 

[solidsheelop]

Badly photoshopped beard onto one of the few great characters from the RoP show that the internet weirdos complained about most for "reasons" despite the obvious good she did for the lore as well as the setting.


Definitely a trustworthy and unbiased source when it comes to someone complaining about people ruining the IP. Can't wait to watch.

Any comment on the substance of the video?

 

[Ownage]

Show us what happens when the OG team floats off into the sunset after RotK.

Moar battles? Orgies? Big booty bass twirk parties?

 

[IDKFA]

I think I would be open to a new story that takes place several centuries after RotK.

Like, there's been peace in Middle Earth for half an age, but now evil stirs in Mordor once more. New characters, evolved (yet familiar) locations, but the same governing rules of the universe.

Not sure how you'd work rings into it, though, since the One Ring was destroyed at Mt. Doom.

But why not? It doesn't have to end with Tolkien. If it's a well-planned, earnest endeavor with respect for the established lore, it could work.

Admittedly, however, that is one big fucking 'if'.

It's disrespectful to Tolkien's legacy and his life's work.

He didn't spend the vast majority of his adult life creating his work of fiction so it could be shat on and twisted decades later by companies looking to make a profit. Amazon's pathetic attempt with Rings of Power was insulting enough.

 

[Kilau]

Badly photoshopped beard onto one of the few great characters from the RoP show that the internet weirdos complained about most for "reasons" despite the obvious good she did for the lore as well as the setting.


Definitely a trustworthy and unbiased source when it comes to someone complaining about people ruining the IP. Can't wait to watch.

I haven't watched the video but one of the legit fan complaints is that she should have had a beard.

 

[VN1X]

Well if anything Embracer & New Line have seen how not to tackle the material what with that Rings of Power bomba and all.

Could be decent but I'm not exactly filled with excitement to say the least lol.