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https://nerdist.com/article/new-lord-of-the-rings-movies-in-works-warner-brothers-new-line-cinema-jrr-tolkien/
So it begins...
Edit:
Or maybe not?
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-lord-of-the-rings-movies-in-the-works-wont-be-remakes-or-retread-old-ground/1100-6511794/
We’ll have to see.
rambot
If it's ANYTHING to do with Tom Bombadil, I am SOOOOOOO in. But if it's just frodo's story..i'll prolly still watch it.but I won't like it
Lieto
LotR is the remake https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobitit
CannotBeBanned
You know, maybe if they add Tom bombadil?
ToSisPoS
Why not remake a great concept that was executed poorly?
Gerokeymaster
The Jackson version itself is the *third* time the books have been adapted into movies...
JeffGodofBiscuits
Evo435
mrthewhitee
Is it a remake? That isn't what they said. They said lord of the rings movie. The TV show isn't a remake so no reason to assume this is yet.
blubberingbastard
tasthesose2
Good. It’ll either be better or worse - if better then fuck ya - if worse - then we just all watch this version again and laugh at studio.
tasthesose2
I bet no one breaks a foot when they green screen the entire movie :)
HandoB4Javert
supermario182
Ya the original cartoons are all I follow
MightyIink
Nooooo, fuck no, it already looks modern enough, it doesn't need one!
mrthewhitee
There's 0 indication the movies they're planning arr remakes.
q2grapple
YoSoyMilk
David Zaslav must be stopped
OddlyPacific
First remake Meet the Feebles!
eadanke
Oh yes, exactly what we need. The world can't go on with out high quality big budget furry smut. in 4k HD.
echonite
They should just take the original raw footage and redo the CG to keep it up with the times.
metalrulercid
Oh... Well... This just ruined my weekend. Fuck. FUCK!!!
IAmDrBanner
It is not a remake. It is more of a continuation. Hopefully op edits the post. Link below:
IAmDrBanner
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-lord-of-the-rings-movies-in-the-works-wont-be-remakes-or-retread-old-ground/1100-6511794/
WhisperingJeffGoldblum
Either way, I don't trust them to do a good job.
WoTLert
Nowhere in that article does it even suggest remakes.
BarkingBlackbird
500ug
B-but my rage bait article!!!
TrinDiesel
Linked article specifically says a remake is unlikely, and that telling the stories not already covered by the trilogy is more likely.
LanceCorporalBadger
Looks like new stories, not a remake.m and I’m fine with that. Do Beren and Luthien
beemarr
I could maybe get behind Michael Fassenbender as Beren. Or perhaps Kit Harrington/Chris Hemsorth. Not sure who'd work for Luthien though.
k1dicarus1
beemarr
I can dig it.
GenesisAmadeus
The movies sucked, sorry
Billybillybillyporter
eadanke
A feature length Tom Bombadil movie, make it a trilogy so that his chapter gets the treatment it deserves. Get Brian Blessed on the line.
cozmicflea
They haven’t said anywhere that they are making a remake.They announced war of rohirrim a while back, this will likely be silmarillion based
CrimeBrulee
In all seriousness: how did Zaslav get the job? He seems to understand precisely nothing about what consumers want. All of his¹
NaughtButOne
He's not there to create or save anything. The entire enterprise is failing. He's there to extract as much value from it as it dies.
CrimeBrulee
Decisions since the merger don't even seem like cynical profit maximizing, but like pure malice for fans.²
truemetalman
It really is baffling. I'm amazing the board of directors hasn't fired him already. Stock price even is down 35% since the merger.
SalmonMax
The sad truth: The skills that shareholders want from a CEO have very little to do with the skills consumers want from a CEO. Hence the pain
Chimpanzeezeetop
Rookvlees
pixelsnader
Socialism?
GeneralWho
Looks like not everyone got it, but I understood that reference. +1
GeneralWho
heinousanus
Where did you get this pic of how my diet is going?
TheRicM
Onion ring to rule them all
Chimpanzeezeetop
I knew I recognized you from the 1978 lord of the rings
KidAmnesia
PLEASE DON'T.
Chimpanzeezeetop
Why not?
LoudBirb
Who even cares? Just watch the originals instead. That's what I'm going to do.
enterusernamehere25
Why would they? They just came out few years ago I saw them in theaters
AtmaDarkwolf
ya even saying it just invites someone to come spend a few million bucks on a box office stinker.(Or stinkers)
CrimeBrulee
You're being selfish. Think of poor Warner Bros., not being able to make money!
whapowpow
Isn’t it just Amazon, like Imgur?
neospor1n
I think you’re think of just Rings of Power, but they announced some films in the last few days
Imdead124
Say it ain't so!
wagnus
FTUG
And my bow
boiphamet
And my ass
Schreibicus
Why? It will be adapted for modern audience!
CubwardOHulihan
They're not remaking lotr they're using stuff from the silmarillion to make different movies that aren't lotr.
lostlittletimeonthis
Bring on the dragon fights, the fall of gondolin
SheepySleepySmuggler
Why should we just have episodes 1, 3, 4 and 5? There's probably enough material to create 0 and 2, and then 6, 7, etc...
Omegatherion
Somehow, Saruman returns...
LORDBUMBLE
He exploded, you might say he might as well have been tossed down a bottomless shaft, then the moon that shaft was on exploded...
Ruik
Ikr. We haven't seen The Rock as Aragorn, Chris Hemsworth as Legolas, Kevin Hart as Gimli or Chris Pratt as Frodo yet.
marthafarquar
...bringing Tolkien to the screen in “new and exciting ways.”
BarkingBlackbird
With Michael Caine as Gollum. And he plays it as serious as a car accident.
beemarr
Ok, yeah, that's a remake I could get behind.
UncleIrohnman
This would be an absolute exception from said rule. I would watch the shit out of this.
THEcableguy
That.. would be fucking amazing.
secondtalon
I will only accept the Swedish Chef as Aragorn. "Eyb suben derb tub furben oerb!" - Ghost muppets appear
FallingStar7669
Okay, but Kermit do be rocking that Hobbit drip.
grhope
Too many muppets. Either Gandalf should be human or for pure comedy, make one of the twins a human.
AThreeFootTallChocolateMooseWithFudgeEyes
Daniel Radcliff is Frodo, everyone mistakes him for Elijah
eadanke
I think every elf and only the elves being human would be perfect.
abacaxi
Sam has GOT to be Denethor and I have to think how to use Statler and Waldorf.
AThreeFootTallChocolateMooseWithFudgeEyes
Sauron and Saruman
herrcane
Well, clearly they'd be present at the Council of Elrond.
imgurmage
From that article it sounds like they're going to do other stories in Middle Earth, not remake the original trilogy.
K3rp
Yet…
wuzziwuzzi
I’ve read all the LotRs/Hobbit multiple times and have 0 interest outside of that. Good luck WB
3Davideo
Ah, House of the Green Dragon.
PoweredByPotato
Yeah, the article is baiting.
Easykehl
If that’s the case this in nothing new, right? There’s already that Rings of Power show last year.
Mokelzwerg
It’s still going to be awful. I just feel it.
dezzy27
When in doubt, follow your nose -Gandalf in the mines
Goldensands
Shadows of mordor game adapted into a show (would be tricky to be sure) would be rad.
SlightlyAnnoyedDwarf
That's just D&D
q2grapple
You’d think they would have learned from watching the Amazon one get beaten to death that that’s not a good idea
imgurmage
The (potential) difference is Amazon set out to create a story loosely based on the LOTR universe, where a WB has the actual 1/2
imgurmage
Rights to a bunch of the content to adapt. Amazon only had the appendices from the LOTR books, basically just the cliff notes. 2/2
CubwardOHulihan
I enjoyed rings of power. They should remake the Hobbit. But not shit, in one film.
Goldensands
Apparently Amazon had some weird rights to like a prologue and no more which severely limited what the show could do. The consensus seems to
Goldensands
Be that is what went wrong. It's not as if there could never be another great LOTR movie... they just keep fking it up :....:
BarryTheCyborg
They fucked up the Hobbit, I have negative faith that they could make their own story line.
Nathanyel
Hot take: even the LotR movies were mediocre. Great execution of course., but you really noticed how dated and bland the story was even for
Nathanyel
the time.
pumper
They fucked it up because of greed. It was supposed to have 2 movies and was written and shot as such.
WhisperingJeffGoldblum
There's a fan edit of Hobbit that's supposedly pretty faithful to the book. M4 Edit.
Chilichunks
They didn't fuck it up, they used good foundation and overinflated it. There's fantastic parts, you just need to pick around the excess.
Bertfisch
I dont like the hobbit but I really liked the series
ZebraCockSandwich
There are things I liked about it from a movie standpoint, for instance the addition of what Gandalf was doing with the necromancer instead1
ZebraCockSandwich
of just leaving it out like it was in the books (for obvious reasons as it was told from bilbos perspective), it made sense to add it to 2
ZebraCockSandwich
the movie as the movie isn't being told from a first-person perspective. How they handled the parts true to the books were good, and the 3
ZebraCockSandwich
extension of the river town plot wasn't a terrible addition. HOWEVER, all the other shit and extra drama they added was so stupid I 4/
CakeOrGlory
People act like The Hobbit was sacrosanct. The movies sucked, but The Hobbit was not the great book that the LOTR trilogy were.
CakeOrGlory
Gandalf buggers off and has a better adventure somewhere else we don't hear about, Smaug is killed off-"screen" by Bard, who is barely a...
CakeOrGlory
..character, there's too damn many dwarves and most of them are irrelevant, and this isn't exactly the book's fault but there are...
CakeOrGlory
..narrative inconsistencies between The Hobbit and LOTR because in The Hobbit he was just writing a kids' book.
Stuey1221
The hobbit wasn’t too bad. It’s a shame del toro left and Jackson only had a few months to prepare
BarryTheCyborg
They were entertaining, but there was no need for there to be 3 of them. I watched them once and have no need to watch them again.
Stuey1221
That’s true yeah
Chilichunks
It wasn't, at all. I have a Hobbit tattoo, I dress as Bilbo for Halloween, I have replicas of swords and pipes, I've read the books multiple
Chilichunks
times, I am IN that shit. Do I think it was a faithful recreation? No. Did it need to be three movies? No. Do I hate parts of it? God yes.
Chilichunks
But if you put aside nerd rage and just try to have fun, it's an incredibly fun movie. I will never get over the windlance bullshit though.
SaturnineCult
Oh no, it was horrible. It tried to be Hobbit and LOTR story at the same time, and it was way too long with unnecessary characters.
PleaseRespectMyAsshole
Yeah, they made a LOT of unnecessary changes simply to expand it to three films and make more money.
Noahbalboa82
I agree. They could have cut out a lot and been just as good, if not better, and I would have been happy with 2 films. I liked the 1st a lot
MuonNeutrino
For tolkien fans, they were an insult. For everyone, they were poor movies, with too much padding and dumb spectacle and a mangled story.
Infinias
From fuck-gravity-Legolas over to the absurd cuts and framing in the extended cut, with teleporting armies between shots, sudden disappear
Infinias
-ing corpses, size, position and numbers of soldiers different im each shot...GOOD WHAT A SHIT SHOW!
SteveMND
it wasn't…? I mean, they could have salvaged it as a two-parter, but even that seemed excessive. It was written in the style of a >
SteveMND
< kid-friendly fairy tale for a reason, after all, and trying to pad it out to a three-part epic seemed a poor choice.
Noahbalboa82
Agreed, a 2 part story would have been much better. Too much filler
Z0op
It tried too hard to be LotR, failed hard at it, i feel it might have been better as a series, or at least a single movie
Mokelzwerg
It felt like a jump and run game
randomdudefromtheinternet
This + bad CGI + unnecessary added love story.
imgurmage
The Hobbit wasn't good. They wanted to make money like LotR did, but the Hobbit is shorter that The Fellowship in terms of length. 1/2
imgurmage
So we ended up with a bunch of original content (and the barrel scene) that just wasn't important just filler.
Chilichunks
The barrel ride is important, but not, what...15 minutes and an entire tacked on battle important.