The Lord Of The Rings writer clarifies the plans for future movies in a new Empire interview. Read more.
  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
    261·
    2 months ago

    “It’s a specific chunk of incredible untold story, told through the perspective of this incredible creature.”.

    Yes. Living in a dark cave with some water in it is so incredible. We can only guess why the story was never told.

    Also, Gandolf in both films. But they won’t do anything in the 1st or 2nd era. Cowards.

      • MutilationWave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Tolkien’s heirs will not let them touch The Silmarillion. The current show is based on the appendices to LOTR. I watched it for a while and enjoyed it, I’m not caught up. Certainly better than the Hobbit bullshit. Hopefully this opens the door to doing stuff from Sil.

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      The show is based on the second age. And if you don’t like the show you aren’t gonna like any new movies anyways

          • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Thanks. It looks like the horrible Wheel of Time show, but with LotR. Glad to know I’m not wrong.

        • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          The first season was ok, and the second season was a little less than ok.

          The show simultaneously feels very drawn out in some places and unrealistically quick in others, though usually the first. The different storylines seem completely unrelated or take too long to come together, and almost never in a way that’s satisfying.

          There’s some good actors hamstrung by bad dialogue and uninteresting choices. For instance, one of the few intriguing choices they made in the first season is badass warrior Galadriel, and she spends almost the entire second season being aloof and ineffectual. To the show’s credit, season two does have a real climax near the end (looking at you House of the Dragon season two), but they built up zero tension leading up so you don’t really care much.

          They also fell for the really big trap in adapting this age onto the screen: there’s too many elves, and they’re boring. They need foils (Gimli to Legolas), yet Durin Jr. and young Elrond aren’t around each other enough for it to do anything.

          It’s nice to look at though.

  • dellish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    Fuckn YAWN Everything has to be a franchise now doesn’t it? They already butchered The Hobbit by turning a short story into 9 hours of crap by padding out and blatantly making shit up. It’s not like all these “safe bets” the studios are making are paying out too well at the moment, so why not try taking some smaller risks with new and different projects? I’m sure Hollywood is flooded with people with original ideas and scripts that are being bypassed because Fast And Fuckaround 11tyone needs to be made because money.

  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    Look, either make “Ken Burns’ The Silmarillion” already or let the franchise rest.

  • hoot@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    The only one in the world asking for more Gollum content is Andy Serkis’ bank account.

  • TastyWheat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    There will only be three and a half LOTR movies. I’m counting that weird one from the 70’s as the half.