Posted on 02/24/2023 9:54:05 AM PST by Red Badger
“Lord of the Rings” fans are less than thrilled about the Thursday announcement from Warner Bros. that indicates the company plans to make more films based on the franchise.
The decision comes less than a year after the big-budget Amazon TV series “The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power” was released to mixed reviews. The television project and all previous film adaptations are based on the epic high-fantasy book series by British author J.R.R. Tolkien.
Warner Bros. Pictures announced Thursday that they signed a multi-year agreement with Swedish media company Embracer Group to revisit Tolkien’s work. Director Peter Jackson was behind the “Lord of the Rings” film trilogy in the early 2000s and is apparently part of the new deal as well.
“Twenty years ago, New Line took an unprecedented leap of faith to realize the incredible stories, characters and world of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ on the big screen. The result was a landmark series of films that have been embraced by generations of fans,” Warner Bros. Pictures executives Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy said in a statement, according to Entertainment Weekly.
“But for all the scope and detail lovingly packed into the two trilogies, the vast, complex and dazzling universe dreamed up by J.R.R. Tolkien remains largely unexplored on film. The opportunity to invite fans deeper into the cinematic world of Middle-earth is an honor, and we are excited to partner with Middle-earth Enterprises and Embracer on this adventure.”
Social media fans were not happy to hear the announcement. The original trilogy is widely regarded as three of the greatest and most influential films ever made. All three movies were financially successful, raking in close to $3 billion worldwide and earning widespread acclaim from critics and audiences.
“No. No no no no no. Stop wrecking things,” one reaction to the announcement said.
“Part of me feels like this incessant need to remake or reimagine movies we grew up loving is to intentionally demoralize us and taint the good memories we have of certain films,” another Twitter user agreed. “I have zero faith they won’t remake this in their woke image.”
“The trilogy was perfect but of course they need to ruin it,” another person echoed.
It hasn’t been announced yet what Jackson’s role in the initiative will be, but the director shared in a statement that he’s excited about being involved. “Warner Bros. and Embracer have kept us in the loop every step of the way,” Jackson and his writing partners, Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens, said in a joint statement, per EW.
“We look forward to speaking with them further to hear their vision for the franchise moving forward.”
As already stated by others, a remake is just an excuse to make it more Woke and politically-correct.
guaranteed sam and frodo would be gay lovers in a remake, along with blacks playing elves, I’ll pass.
When Hollywood starts making remakes of movies that originally stared blacks in the lead like... “Shaft” and then casts a lilly white red head in the roll then I will believe they are simply ignoring race and pricking the best person and not simply sticking a thumb in the eye of white Americans.
Whatever and however they handle it, they will make it Woker than Woke. Makes me want to throw up, thinking about how Hollywood will shred Middle Earth.
Major characters will be “of color”, gay, trans, Bi and non-Binary.
Sam Smith as Legolas. Will Smith as Aragorn.
Gonna be a groove.
My eyes shall not behold this travesty.
[Bilbo Baggins passed away three years ago, so he won’t be rebooting anything.]
Mixed ....
Some reviews I saw said it sucked.
Some other reviews I saw said it was a demonic abhomiation from HELL!
I’ve never watched any of the LOTR movies either. I have a strict policy that if I enjoyed a book, I’ll never see the filmed version.
Science fiction or any fiction is best read.
The author sets the scene and the readers mind fills in the minute details.
Tolkien and Herbert look very different in my mind than thier film portrayals.
So much of Dune takes places inside the characters heads that’s hard to translate to video. The original movie tried to use voiceovers to deal with this but it didn’t work very well.
The best part of Dune (the original book) is that Herbert built his world, his universe, his history with so few words. He did it through implication and just a few prompts, making his readers fill in the (vast) blanks.
Dune, more than most novels, is a forced exercise of the imagination.
A lesser writer would have lost himself in endless exposition.
The best part of Dune (the original book) is that Herbert built his world, his universe, his history with so few words. He did it through implication and just a few prompts, making his readers fill in the (vast) blanks.
Dune, more than most novels, is a forced exercise of the imagination.
A lesser writer would have lost himself in endless exposition.
I hope there isn’t any remakes, but they expand in different stories in the lore and books.
The irony of it all....Herbert built his fortune on the reimagined uses of worm excrement....someone somewhere in the infernal regions was laughing at the foolishness of humans to so quickly part with their money. Obama used the same technique...vague positive generalities and open happy happy promises while castigating “enemies” by stoking voters’ paranoia with broadly general negative descriptives...and fools just filled in the blanks!
No, it doesn’t make sense. But, if they do it in West Saxon or Icelandic or Norse with subtitles I might be persuaded to watch.
There is still on more Tolkien novel that hasn’t been made into a movie..................
I read the “Game of Thrones” books as well by George RR Martin (actually the unfinished series is titled “A Song Of Ice And Fire”). Much superior to the TV show but not for everybody as themes of incest, torture, and gratuitious murders permeate the novels. In fact, I would say that most Tolkien readers would not enjoy the Martin books at all because there are very few happy endings for the characters and most of them are very immoral. Only Samwell Tarly comes close to a Tolkiern character in my opinion.
Tommen was a good person. Yeah, I don’t mind the sex and violence. I’ve read worse. Jack Whyte was beyond disgusting.
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