GeneticBlueprint Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 More ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Movies In Works As Warner Bros & New Line Strike Rights Deal DEADLINE.COM New ‘Lord of The Rings’ movies are in the works thanks to an agreement between New Line, Warner Bros Pictures and Embracer Group. Curious if they're going to mine other parts of the lore or just remake a movie that one a million Oscars. Quote Zaslav has mentioned in previous calls the need for more franchises on the big screen. Fucking die you dumb fucking ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 I think this has to be a new story and not doing the main books again. I’m trying to imagine the massive balls one would need to look at the LOTR trilogy and thing “yeah, we could do that a lot better now”. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 I can think of few cinematic endeavors more futile than trying to redo the Lord of the Rings trilogy. There is no way to match, let alone improve upon, the trilogy. It was lightning in a bottle. The perfect cast, at the perfect time, in the perfect situation. I am trying to think of an analogy to express how bad of an idea it would be.....but I think LotR IS that analogy. There is literally nothing that would be a worse idea to try to remake..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Greatoneshere Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 So long as you don't remake the original LOTR trilogy, given how good Rings of Power turned out to be I'm down. Leave The Hobbit alone too, while not a great trilogy it's been done and it syncs with the LOTR trilogy well enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Gotta push through a Golem movie so that by the time the game comes out it will make huge sales! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 This is on-brand for a company that announced that Mortal Kombat 12 is in development during the same earnings call. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricofoley Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Call up Del Toro and see if he still wants to make his version of The Hobbit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69los Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 There and back again...and again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Not needed in anyway. We are seriously out of ideas now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Remake the hobbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 13 hours ago, Greatoneshere said: So long as you don't remake the original LOTR trilogy, given how good Rings of Power turned out to be I'm down. Leave The Hobbit alone too, while not a great trilogy it's been done and it syncs with the LOTR trilogy well enough. Yeah, that's the problem with the Hobbit. It's a relatively easier target to hit, but it's continuity with LotR makes it hard to try to match on a Tolkien playlist. Having Ian McKellen as Gandalf alone makes it a tough nut to crack..... I think what you could do with the Hobbit is just do a complete departure from tone, style, and content of PJ's trilogy. Since the trilogy departed quite a bit from the book to be in line with LotR, circle back around and make a movie more in line with the book. Make a more whimsical and almost fairytale-ish version of the Hobbit. Make it one movie(as so many critics of the trilogy claimed it should have been). I can see the Hobbit, as a single "fun" film not replacing PJ's trilogy in a Tolkien rewatch.....but being a fun, quick side trip. Not to say that I would be particularly hyped for it, but I see it as at least a more feasible goal. And certainly more attainable than, say, a Lord of the Rings remake featuring Chris Pratt and Tom Hollins as Aragorn and Frodo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted February 24, 2023 Author Share Posted February 24, 2023 17 minutes ago, Chairslinger said: Yeah, that's the problem with the Hobbit. It's a relatively easier target to hit, but it's continuity with LotR makes it hard to try to match on a Tolkien playlist. Having Ian McKellen as Gandalf alone makes it a tough nut to crack..... I think what you could do with the Hobbit is just do a complete departure from tone, style, and content of PJ's trilogy. Since the trilogy departed quite a bit from the book to be in line with LotR, circle back around and make a movie more in line with the book. Make a more whimsical and almost fairytale-ish version of the Hobbit. Make it one movie(as so many critics of the trilogy claimed it should have been). I can see the Hobbit, as a single "fun" film not replacing PJ's trilogy in a Tolkien rewatch.....but being a fun, quick side trip. Not to say that I would be particularly hyped for it, but I see it as at least a more feasible goal. And certainly more attainable than, say, a Lord of the Rings remake featuring Chris Pratt and Tom Hollins as Aragorn and Frodo You willed this into the universe and now it's going to happen. Thanks a lot 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 12 hours ago, Ricofoley said: Call up Del Toro and see if he still wants to make his version of The Hobbit 26 minutes ago, ort said: Remake the hobbit. 20 minutes ago, Chairslinger said: I think what you could do with the Hobbit is just do a complete departure from tone, style, and content of PJ's trilogy. Since the trilogy departed quite a bit from the book to be in line with LotR, circle back around and make a movie more in line with the book. Make a more whimsical and almost fairytale-ish version of the Hobbit. Make it one movie(as so many critics of the trilogy claimed it should have been). Del Toro is in the middle of a stop-motion run. A high budget stop-motion animated Hobbit could be magical. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 26 minutes ago, TheLeon said: Del Toro is in the middle of a stop-motion run. A high budget stop-motion animated Hobbit could be magical. The only way David Zaslav would greenlight a new Hobbit would be a low-budget reality TV show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShader Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 18 hours ago, TheLeon said: I think this has to be a new story and not doing the main books again. I’m trying to imagine the massive balls one would need to look at the LOTR trilogy and thing “yeah, we could do that a lot better now”. Thing is, in my opinion, they legitimately could do better and it wouldn't matter. People love the original trilogy too much, they'd almost never accept a new one regardless of quality. I think the only time a remake could ever work, at minimum, is when all of us that grew up with the original are 70 or 80, and the younger audiences don't have the emotional attachment to the movies that we do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demut Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 19 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said: a movie that one *won Anyway, while there is definitely room for improvement in the original trilogy (particularly where SFX are concerned but also narratively), I have less than no faith in modern Hollywood's ability or even willingness to actually have any remake be a net improvement. And not just them either as Rangz of Powah has shown. Then again, I never understood the sentiment of shit remakes "ruining" the originals so if they wanna piss away a billion dollars, let them do it. The only downside I can think of is potentially making the material "toxic" to investors, thereby decreasing the likelihood of another, proper remake being attempted any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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