Peter Jackson had to fight to get it done in more than 1 movie too lol. Such a huge change in Hollywood just between LOTR and the hobbit.
Before LotR, fantasy movies were all like Dungeons and Dragons. Absolute trash.
Now, they're still trash. Turns out LotR was the exception.
A minor miracle that the guy who did King Kong managed to make good Lord of the Rings movies
I happened to see King Kong on TV recently and man, what an overindulgent bloated mess
All of Peter Jackson’s stuff is like this. His new Beatles documentary is like this too, like 6 hours of bullshit that needed trimmed
He should take on massive epics only, not this hobbit, king kong shit he stretches into six hours.
adapt beowulf, or the bhagvad gota or the odyssey or some shit
Do the Beatles turn into CGI at any point and defy gravity in extended video game sequences
Game of Thrones seasons 1-3 is good, it’s too bad the show was canceled and they never made a single additional episode after that 😔
Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System!? :maduro-katana-1::maduro-katana-2:
I have a lot of love for Conan, the Beastmaster, Hawk the Slayer, and so on. But they're all trash.
And the B.P.M* would be something like 6.7 for every 10 minutes of run time.
B.P.M., Breasts per Minute
Okay but I would actually be super down for a Silmarillion tv show
I absolutely adored all the LOTR books, the movies, had art books and maps and pictures and I put down the silmarillion after 150 pages because it's so utterly fucking boring. It's a cool creation myth that should have been 50 pages at most. Universe gets sung into reality, there is evil guy, cool tree, shiny jewels, some godly drama, done.
Yeah a big thing is that the Silmarillion really isn't a story book but just a giant freaking lore book. I liked it but then again I really like boring history lore shit.
i was locked up with access to a nice library and man did it seem engrossing at the time lol
Oh it’s brutal, I did similar. But I feel like it could maybe work as a TV show? A miniseries perhaps?
a discovery channel series about Middle Earth.
Hey, they made David Attenborough shows where he just narrates dinosaurs living their lives. Maybe someone could make it work.
I've never read the Silmarillion though, so I have no clue if it's interesting enough for that.
An anthology series maybe? And yeah obviously it would need some serious adapting but so did lord of the rings and those movies are amazing obviously
I absolutely adored all the LOTR books, the movies, had art books and maps and pictures and I put down the silmarillion after 150 pages because it’s so utterly fucking boring.
omg so much this
I put down the silmarillion after 150 pages because it’s so utterly fucking boring.
The beginning of the book is far more lore heavy than story heavy. I read it cover to cover and there are definitely good parts, but its not something good for a casual read.
Agreed, I’d probably want Amazon to do it, maybe HBO. I wouldn’t trust Netflix to not cancel it after 2 seasons
Amazon can’t do fantasy shows. Look how they butchered wheel of time.
Edit: Casting was on point though, and the music… ok fine maybe it was a writing problem or something.
As far as I can tell Amazon seems to be relatively hands off with their shows as long as they do alright, so I think it would mostly just depend on the writers and directors.
Damn, I would have expected the opposite. Probably helps pull talent.
The streaming service would then go out of business and a chunk of the lore will disappear completely.
For some reason they did the second age instead of just making movies out of the first age
All I know is there's a character who's like if an American Troop got isekaid into the LotRverse.
The First Age is a bit more abstract, since the major players are all gods.
Sauron as Lord of Gifts, the fall of Numeria, the arrival of the Istari, and the first War of the Ring has a lot of story potential.
Well, it's how LotR will be made in the future after another mega-publisher bought the rights.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/18/23311815/heres-what-embracer-group-can-and-cant-do-with-lord-of-the-rings
I was gonna say the Lathe has been activated, but it looks like the purchase happened yesterday, so for once we didn't forge the future
I am going to track you down and force you to watch all of these movies as a punishment.
misses a Biopic of the one orc that screems "Spears" , would watch them all , especially Bombadil Civil war..
Comic books were always like this. Go back to the 70s and read The Human Torch fights Spiderman: Crossover Spectacular Guest Staring Doctor Strange and President Richard Nixon.
That's just what pulp fiction has always been. Hell, B-list movies are like it, too. Everything from Superman to Hellraiser, movies just got cranked out every few years.
Up until Marvel Cinematic Universe, you'd just re-release the origin story of a character every five years.
I liked MCU early on just because it gave us stories more elaborate than Meet The Supes for twenty years.
