The first film, from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures, will be called Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum (working title), with Andy Serkis set to star and direct the feature,
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
"What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter."
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
Alatar wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 10:58 am
I seem to remember something about the rights reverting if they don't keep them active.
My understanding (which I have not researched fully) is that this is a whole new licensing agreement that WB/NL entered into with the new rights-holder, Embracer, after the latter purchased the rights from Saul Zaentz' company (whatever it was called at the time).
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
I'm glad they've restored the fan film, but I'm not sure I buy the "it was a mistake" angle, unless the mistake was "we failed to anticipate the fan response". :V But yeah, the 2009 version was the first thing I thought of. I hope they at least change the working title for this new film.
Good idea. Should I move the other posts to this thread?
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
Not thrilled with this. I thought War of the Rohirrim was a tasteful way to continue making movies, possibly leading to an animated anthology series about less-known parts of the Third Age. This comes across as just a cash-in - remember the abandoned Hobbit "bridge film"? Admittedly it might be nice to see Serkis in action again though.
It will probably become a culture war icon for really stupid reasons just because it isn't Amazon though.
(In the voice of Gimli talking about Emyn Muil)I rolled my eyes when I heard about this. It has the same ol same ol that butchered Lord of the Rings and bloated The Hobbit on film. To make matters worse, of ALL the many many stories that could be mined out of the appendices, they had to take the lazy route and co-opt a fan-film tale. Lazy I say. Peter Jackson has already flipped us off with his carrot in the Hobbit movies, so I expect this to be even worse. Will I go see it? Yes, probably. Preferably I'll find a free premiere showing to get into like I did with each of the three Hobbit movies. They never got a penny out of me for them.
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
--Bilbo Baggins
Sigh . . . more $ as Voronwë stated. We'll see who it stars besides Andy. Yes, I'll attend but I think I would have preferred other options from the Appendix's. I'd love to see one written about Prince Eärnur and the fall of Angmar etc. I think that would have provided a more interesting movie.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it, there are many dark places; but still, there is much that is fair, and though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
In this context, I have to appreciate ROP. They made a bold attempt to create a story that was true to Tolkien but also original and suspenseful in itself, with characters that are not pasted from PJ movie canon but that could conceivably evolve into those characters. I think they mostly succeeded, and where I think they missed, I have to respect what they tried.
"What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter."