J.R.R Tolkien Biopic on the way!

[KnightGambit]

Today it has been reported that a screenplay for a biopic based off Lord of the Rings author J.R.R Tolkien is in the works! It will be penned by David Gleeson (Cowboys & Aliens). It will follow the life of the famed author...It will be titled "Tolkien"

full story - http://www.superheromoviesnews.com/2013/11/jrr-tolkien-biopic-in-works-titled.html

 

[Boom]

They had me right up until the screenwriter.

What a joke .

EDIT: Turns out he wrote Cowboys and ANGELS. Back on board.

 

[KnightGambit]

Wonder if they will have CS Lewis in the film.....

 

[DarkKnight88]

They should since they were very close.

Oddly enough, Anthony Hopkins played C.S. Lewis in the film Shadowlands but J.R.R Tolkien is nowhere to be found.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Just saw this on CS here's what I posted there:

All you really need to do, filmmakers, is look at Humphrey Carpenter's J. R. R. TOLKIEN: A BIOGRAPHY.

Honestly, I think this'd be a wonderful opportunity to explore some of the focal points of The Silmarillion, as Tolkien goes through the experiences of his life (World War I>Fall of Gondolin/Dead Marshes flashbacks, Edith dancing for him in the glade>Beren and Lúthien, etc.) in addition to Tolkien's friendship with C. S. Lewis. If done right it could be a spectacular, emotional film.

Ralph Feinnes for John Ronald Reuel. He's a dead ringer for him post-WWI.

Wonder if they will have CS Lewis in the film.....

KG, you'd be in for a treat there. I'd love for them to explore the Inklings, maybe get a little trippy as Tolkien writes the Notion Club Papers, blur the lines between fantasy and reality. And they must, MUST include the Long Talk that Tolkien and Hugo Dyson had with Lewis, which was the impetus behind Lewis's conversion to Christianity (he was an atheist before he met Tolkien, how many knew that?)

But I definitely want to see Edith dancing for John in the woodland glade surrounded by hemlock. Just imagine seamless intercutting between Edith and Lúthien dancing, with some gentle singing by Renée Fleming…dude...

 

[DarkKnight88]

Since he's mentioned in every single casting thread and I usually disagree, Michael Fassbender looks like he could be a young J.R.R Tolkien.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Ladies and gentlemen, mae govannen, elen síla lumenn' omentielvo. I can't believe how obvious it was, but I tell you now THIS will be our Tolkien, and dammit he better win the Best Actor Oscar.

Drum roll, please….

Spoiler

While the picture may be a bit funny, I'm dead serious about this casting idea.

 

[Still Wynning]

Just saw this on CS here's what I posted there:

All you really need to do, filmmakers, is look at Humphrey Carpenter's J. R. R. TOLKIEN: A BIOGRAPHY.

Honestly, I think this'd be a wonderful opportunity to explore some of the focal points of The Silmarillion, as Tolkien goes through the experiences of his life (World War I>Fall of Gondolin/Dead Marshes flashbacks, Edith dancing for him in the glade>Beren and Lúthien, etc.) in addition to Tolkien's friendship with C. S. Lewis. If done right it could be a spectacular, emotional film.

Ralph Feinnes for John Ronald Reuel. He's a dead ringer for him post-WWI.

KG, you'd be in for a treat there. I'd love for them to explore the Inklings, maybe get a little trippy as Tolkien writes the Notion Club Papers, blur the lines between fantasy and reality. And they must, MUST include the Long Talk that Tolkien and Hugo Dyson had with Lewis, which was the impetus behind Lewis's conversion to Christianity (he was an atheist before he met Tolkien, how many knew that?)

But I definitely want to see Edith dancing for John in the woodland glade surrounded by hemlock. Just imagine seamless intercutting between Edith and Lúthien dancing, with some gentle singing by Renée Fleming…dude...

Man, if they did just about everything you said right there for the film, I would probably cry multiple times during the film.

 

[KnightGambit]

I agree o.o

 

[DarkKnight88]

Don't see it at all.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Man, if they did just about everything you said right there for the film, I would probably cry multiple times during the film.

Thanks man. Tolkien is my favorite author, he's the reason I write my own fantasy novels the way I do. If you've ever read HoME (which I highly, HIGHLY recommend), I believe the Notion Club Papers are in Sauron Defeated (volume 9). I do believe Tolkien actually read the work as it was a WIP to the Inklings, so it'd just be amazing to see Tolkien (i.e. Cumberbatch) reading the text and then to just cut to the meat of it and SEE it happen.

But I keep on coming back to Edith's dance for Ronald in the glade, because that was in fact his inspiration for the tale of Beren and Lúthien. So to see that scene of whoever they cast as Edith (hopefully my future wife Keira Knightley or Emma Watson) dancing and singing softly as Ronald looks on in both love and wonder, then to hear Renée Fleming begin to sing (she loves singing in Quenya) along with Edith, and then the seamless intercutting between that scene and Beren's stumbling upon Lúthien…Eru, the tears are flowing right now

I agree o.o

It's scarily uncanny.

 

[DarkSentinel]

By the way, my heart broke when I read this. It's something Tolkien said about the relationship between Edith and the Lúthien story shortly after she died (it's on Wikipedia)

"But the story has gone crooked, & I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos."

 

[Victarion]

Sounds cool. I think Michael Moorcock was one of the Inklings, too. He's said he and some other guys frequented a tavern or pub when Tolkien and Lewis were there talking about writing. Where can I read about that talk between Tolkien, Lewis and Dyson?

 

[DarkSentinel]

The Bird and the Baby

aka the Eagle and Child

t:

 

[kvz5]

J

Steve Carrell

 

[Boom]

Lee Pace with a nose prosthetic.

 

[Schlosser85]

I could see Ralph Fiennes or Benedict Cumberbatch doing it. Between them, I lean toward Cumberbatch for Tolkien.

 

[DarkSentinel]

And that, friends, is why Schlosser and I get along so well.

 

[Sawyer]

Ryan Gosling.

 

[Alien Anal]

Thats what i was going to say

 

[dark_b]

anything interesting happened in his life other than writting the LOTR books?

 

[nouan]

He fought in the great war. In the battle of Somme.

 

[Pink Ranger]

He had a very interesting life, so it should be a good movie.

This is a no brainer, but they should juxtapose major events in his life (hiking through Switzerland, witnessing the atrocities of war, romantic moments with his wife) with creative "awakenings" that would eventually find themselves showing up in LOTR.

 

[Hyde]

Holy ****, yes!

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

I like the ryan gosling suggestion.

mostly because cumberbatch is already Julian Assange.