The Official 'Lord Of the Rings' Thread

[C. Lee]

Looking forward to their LOWER DECKS version of the Orcs working for Saruman.

 

[Erik20]

Looking forward to their LOWER DECKS version of the Orcs working for Saruman.

I mean, I would actually watch that...

 

[Silvermoth]

Yeah me too actually. Just, who could possibly be cast as a voice actor for Saruman who could replace the great Chris Lee?

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Referring back to an earlier post I made when the rights first went up for sale:

Like what did you want them to do? Make Gimli: A Lord of the Rings Story? Remake the trilogy every ten years? What other “content” is there?

This is so indicative of the problem in Hollywood where everything is just a content mine now.

 

[Pennywise]

I want a Tom Bombadil movie, damn it!

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Meh. Get back to me when someone manages to convince The Tolkien Estate to cough up the rights to The Silmarillion and The Unfinished Tales.

This is a good point too. If it’s just The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings they’re getting the rights too, then eventually it’s just going to be regurgitating the same story beats. If it was The Silmarillion or Unfinished Tales or the Three Great Tales of the First Age then at least we’d be seeing new stuff.

 

[Pennywise]

‘The Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘Got Talent’ IP Owners Spoke At Mipcom – Deadline

“I think this asset has the ability to get to [Marvel and Star Wars’] scale,” Dey told a packed Mipcom keynote. “Someone has just needed to have the belief that this can be as ambitious as it can be

I do not like this idea.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Just what Tolkien always wanted.

 

[Pennywise]

Just what Tolkien always wanted.

He’d be smiling and laughing that his vision wasn’t tampered with..

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah me too actually. Just, who could possibly be cast as a voice actor for Saruman who could replace the great Chris Lee?

Easy. Another Chris… Chris Pratt!

 

[Boom]

‘The Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘Got Talent’ IP Owners Spoke At Mipcom – Deadline

It can't.

They're not remaking The Hobbit.
They're not remaking The Lord of the Rings.
Amazon's adapting the Second Age material.
The Tolkien Estate won't pony up the rights to The Silmarillion.

You could maybe make a film franchise out of the Angmar War, but that's really it.

 

[Drizzle]

Easy. Another Chris… Chris Pratt!

Lol

But seriously, if they're ever looking for an actor for Saruman who at least gives off a Christopher Lee-esque vibe, I'd go with him:

 

[DarkKnight88]

Come on, we have to milk this IP and think sexy young Saruman spin-off at Wizard school.

 

[TheVileOne]

It can't.

They're not remaking The Hobbit.
They're not remaking The Lord of the Rings.
Amazon's adapting the Second Age material.
The Tolkien Estate won't pony up the rights to The Silmarillion.

You could maybe make a film franchise out of the Angmar War, but that's really it.

Disney got a bargain deal on Marvel compared to what Amazon paid for Lord of the Rings without getting the material they should have gotten.

 

[Deck Rickard]

It can't.

They're not remaking The Hobbit.
They're not remaking The Lord of the Rings.
Amazon's adapting the Second Age material.
The Tolkien Estate won't pony up the rights to The Silmarillion.

You could maybe make a film franchise out of the Angmar War, but that's really it.

This is probably blasphemy but if the Tolkien estate lets them, I think they should adapt The New Shadow and maybe build towards the Dagor Dagorath. Because the way I see it, even if you were able to get ALL the rights to Tolkien’s works, adaptations of this stuff are always going to be divisive. Remaking LOTR will receive backlash from fans of the Jackson films. Remaking The Hobbit actually isn’t a terrible idea since most people didn’t like the movies but there will undoubtedly be feedback of “This again?”. Amazon is already doing Second Age stuff. First Age material is a gold mine but if it also proves difficult to adapt then it will be as divisive as Rings of Power.

So what to do? Maybe writing the sequel that Tolkien abandoned could be interesting. While it will undoubtedly incur mockery (Tolkien himself said it was “not worth doing”), I think that for a good team of writers, it could prove to be something interesting. A Middle-earth that has moved past the time of the elves and is now predominantly ruled by humans might feel fresh and new. And the idea of exploring more of the East and cultists awakening a new evil has some potential, while also including heroic Easterling characters who didn’t fall to Sauron so that part of the story doesn’t feel so problematic. I also think you could spin some interesting tales about the decline of the Dwarves and Hobbits.

Again, I’m sure it will attract the ire of plenty of fans but if more LOTR content is inevitable, maybe it’s better to try something new instead of adapt something people already are really attached too.

 

[Silvermoth]

Easy. Another Chris… Chris Pratt!

ha! You devil.

hey I just rewatched two towers again this week after finishing rings of power. Gee it’s just so good. Aged like wine. Can’t wait to introduce it to my nieces one day

 

[Iceman]

Lol

But seriously, if they're ever looking for an actor for Saruman who at least gives off a Christopher Lee-esque vibe, I'd go with him:

Good pick, he could certainly do a job.

 

[Iceman]

Disney got a bargain deal on Marvel compared to what Amazon paid for Lord of the Rings without getting the material they should have gotten.

Both Marvel and Star Wars were steals before this era of streaming/content wars. I wish LotR rights weren’t so messy.

 

[Arachnerd]

 

[Drizzle]

 

[Iceman]

Think I’ll stick with the boxed extended editions rather than a digital token that you can do F all with, thanks.

 

[LoganPool]

I googled what an NFT is, and I still have no idea...

 

[Brother Jack]

What the ****.

 

[Arachnerd]

I googled what an NFT is, and I still have no idea...

I'm still not 100% sure what they are, but from what I've managed to understand over the past year, it's a controversial currency that actively harms the environment (also those awful monkey paintings count as being NFT). So, you can see the irony of taking a JRR Tolkien property and turn it into something he was advocately against.

 

[Iceman]

One way of simulating an NFT.

1.Take a digital photo of a prized possession.
2.Throw away the prized possession
3.Charge yourself 100 grand (withdraw the money and then throw it away)

You now have an NFT worth 100 grand! (the digital photo)