Warner Bros. plans to reboot The Lord Of The Rings—and we have so many questions
The fires of Mount Doom are starting to bubble and WB is itching to get back to Middle-earth, so let's speculate wildly about what this all means
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Here’s something that we’ve been dreading for the last few years: Warner Bros. announced today that they’re rebooting The Lord Of The Rings. Per Variety, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced on an earnings call (when else?) that the studio was gearing up for another multi-film jaunt through Middle-earth. It makes sense. In the past few months, Zaslav has instituted a “focus on franchises,” threatening us with more Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings movies. However, unlike the Amazon Prime series, The Rings Of Power, WB acquired the adaptive rights for the books The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit.
“Following our recent acquisition of Middle-earth Enterprises, we’re thrilled to embark on this new collaborative journey with New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures, bringing the incomparable world of J.R.R. Tolkien back to the big screen in new and exciting ways,” said Lee Guinchard, CEO of Freemode. “We understand how cherished these works are and working together with our partners at New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures, we plan to honor the past, look to the future, and adhere to the strongest level of quality and production values.”
Um, ok. What does any of this mean? Much like our experience with The Rings Of Power, no one knows! For years, Amazon told us that they were putting together a show about the Second Age, a way of weaving around the rights to the proper Lord Of The Rings books while keeping that title to avoid confusing fans. The recognition of the title is really the most valuable thing here, but it wasn’t until last August that we got any inkling as to what that would look like.
However, this sounds like Warner Bros. will reboot The Hobbit and LOTR, proper. WB Film heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy commented on New Line’s “unprecedented leap of faith to realize the incredible stories, characters and world of The Lord Of The Rings’ on the big screen.” However, “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.”
We have to assume this means that the movies will have nothing to do with The Rings Of Power and will be a total reboot. There is plenty that Jackson left out, and WB would like to make LOTR into an episodic MCU-adjacent thing that the Tolkien estate probably would disapprove of.
We don’t know anything about this reboot. Hell, the people who inked this deal probably don’t know anything about this reboot. But that shouldn’t stop us from hitting the speculation button and spitballing some thoughts about this. Here’s what we’re curious about several things regarding this update:
Will Peter Jackson be involved?
– Seems doubtful considering the last time he made one of these things, he said he “winged it” on The Hobbit, which didn’t get the three-and-a-half years of pre-production. Pre-production is even less popular now than it was when Jackson made The Hobbit trilogy. The director has since made nothing but documentaries. It doesn’t seem like he’s dying to return to Middle-earth.
Update [2/23/23 8:02 p.m.: In a statement to Deadline, Jackson and his co-screenwriters Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens commented on the sale:
“Warner Brothers and Embracer have kept us in the loop every step of the way,” they said. “We look forward to speaking with them further to hear their vision for the franchise moving forward.”
Make of that what you will.
Will any of the original Hobbits return in some capacity?
– Seems likely that some cameos will be in the cards, especially from Andy Serkis. Though, it’s doubtful the three mains will reprise the roles. However, by the time these actually hit theaters, Elijah Wood will finally be an age-appropriate Frodo.
Do we actually want to see any of the original actors return, or is it better to have a clean slate?
– It would be incredibly weird to see the original cast return to remake the thing. Though, if there’s some sort of multi-verse angle, it would probably get audiences in the feels. Imagine all those Gimlis looking at each other.
Will we face LOTR overkill between the reboots of the films and the uber-pricey Amazon series?
– In addition to Warners’ Lord Of The Rings and Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings, Netflix has an animated adaptation, Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim. Plus, there are the books, audiobooks, stage adaptations, and an onslaught of video games coming. If the idea is to drain as much blood from this stone as possible, to having a bloodless stone.
Will the films and the series tread on any of the same territories?
– Once again, we’re left with an announcement that something called The Lord Of The Rings is being made, but we have no idea what that means. With Rings Of Power now out there, we have to imagine that the franchise title “Lord Of The Rings” can mean just about anything that involves Tolkien’s characters.
Will the reboot be 3 films again? Or will WB follow the Hobbit/Star Wars model and stretch out the original material into multiple films and directions?
– Given Zazlov’s hope for more franchises, it would make a lot more sense to make six movies out of Lord Of The Rings than three. Of course, that means if they suck, we’re in for a long series.
How faithful will the reboots be to the original films?
– They mention honoring the past, but one hopes that they’ll do their own thing.
Will they all be shot in New Zealand again, or will filming take place in other locations?
– Again, maybe it’s time to leave New Zealand. Middle-earth is based on England and the greater United Kingdom. Maybe try making the movie there? Just a thought.
Will advances in technology over the past 20 years change the look and approach of these films?
– Maybe since the original Lord Of The Rings, but the Avatar technology existed when Jackson cobbled together The Hobbit, so it’ll probably look more like that.
Is this really a good idea? Do we need this reboot?
– No, we don’t need this. We don’t want this. We’re getting it anyway.
Will WB start to treat LOTR like Batman and churn out different sets of films and stories?
– Seems likely.
Will there be a film that’s just called Gollum (a la Joker)?
– There’s already a video game apparently coming out this year. If successful, it doesn’t seem to be totally out of the question.
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You spelled Zaslav correctly once and then spelled it Zazlov twice.
Look, they can’t be expected to actually read what they wrote—they’re too busy writing it!
It’s 100% a reboot.Despite misunderstandings, Amazon does have the rights to make TV adaptations of the books.Rings of Power would have inevitably led to the end of the Third Age and a reboot of The Hobbit/LOTR in like 2030.WB is going to try and beat them to the punch.
I know this is about maintaining licenses for the IP, but why another reboot? They have license for those years between Hobbit and LOTR. They can make a live action version of Shadow of War.
Good news is that they don’t appear to be rebooting anything, but doing exactly what you’re suggesting and exploring more of Middle Earth. Bad news is that AV Club Staff is so incompetent that they didn’t understand the article they were trying to copy here.
Stop it
So weird that my initial thought was “why? the LOTR trilogy is still so fresh in my mind.” And yet… by the time any of these rebooted movies comes out, more time will have passed between Return of the King and the reboot than, like, Return of the Jedi and the entire prequel trilogy, which felt like I spent my entire childhood waiting for.
There’s so much fun Silmarillion shit to be adapted by a competent storyteller!WHYYYYYYYY are we inflicted with all this nonsense
Because they don’t have the film rights to The Silmarillion, I assume.
Given how well the Star Wars prequels turned out, my mind is now at ease.
I know what you mean (and agree), and yet believe it or not, the prequels are now beloved by a solid fanbase.
Maybe because the source material was published in the 50’s? The story was already known so the anticipation is slightly different? I agree though, feels very different to me as well.
Let the Tom Bombadil fan-casting commence!I say… just give it to Jonathan Rhys-Davies.
Hugh Jackman?
Once upon a time, Brian Blessed.
Ernest Borgnine
“The Riddle of Tom Bombadil: What’s a Tim Conway?”
This is a good idea, I see no problems, and it will definitely work out.
Agreed. All signs point towards this being a work of love and not some soulless cash grab intented to rake in money for shareholders.
Shelob: She-Boss. A LOTR prequel about a young female spider pressured by her conservative parents to get married and instead she sets out on her own.
“When your mother Ungoliant was your age she had destroyed the two trees of Valinor. What have you done? Just hung out in your goth lair hoping for orcs and things to wander in?”
“Are you an Ungoliant or an Ungolican’t?
You doctor spider yet? Talk to me when you doctor spider!
To be fair, surprised it’s taken 20 years to pitch a reboot.
David Zaslav has tirelessly fought for the value of art over commerce, so we are definitely in good hands here.
i mean i think a reboot is incredibly unlikely because fans of the original trilogy would absolutely resent that? if anything I think a Force Awakens-esque sequel trilogy is more likely since it won’t interfere with what Amazon is doing and they already did their own movie prequel with the Hobbit
Yeah, sure. Whatever. If it’s bad, I won’t watch it. It’s not like it erases any of the other iterations of the series. If you’re a Rankin/Bass or Ralph Bakshi devotee, those movies will continue to exist.
So dumb. Those movies hold up, they aren’t in need of an update.
You won’t make any money with that attitude.
This is absolutely not fucking needed. The 3 LOTR films are damn near perfect (Tom Babadil’s exclusion the only exception). Little to no CGI,just great make up.The TV series is pretty much garbage. Amazon sunk so much money into that trash.
Leave them alone. Do The Silmarion. Leave what is already cherished alone. It is “Precious”.
Oh, there’s plenty of CGI. It’s all just aged remarkably well, especially compared to the effects of other movies made at the time.
Interestingly, one of the effects that works least well in LOtR is a practical one. In some of the long shots in the mountains they clearly had kids standing in for the hobbits. Great idea, but it was easy to tell they were kids. Kids just move differently than adults. (Not a knock on a terrific trilogy, just a comment.)
One thing I didn’t realize until recently is that they also had giant stand-ins for the human characters for when they were focused on the hobbits, dwarves.
Yeah, there’s tons of CGI, it’s just really well integrated with practical effects, miniatures (“bigatures”), and forced perspective work.
i feel like they’re leaving a hundred million dollars+ on the table not doing proper theatrical re-releases of the first trilogy.if they did one every christmas…c’mon! that’s way cheaper than making new shit.
okay guys hear me out: a six hour two-part Tom Bombadil movie!A seven hour three-part movie about what the trolls were doing before they ran into Bilbo and then another three-hour movie about the effect their being stone to you had on their families!A nine hour one-part movie about a wizard named Harringhass or some dumb fucking name like that who is always juuuuuuust outside the frame in the other adaptations!More interfantasyspecies longing for people who wanted more lingering shots of Evie Lilly staring at that dwarf’s dick-outline!Liam Hemsworth as Aragorn!A sixteen hour seventeen-part movie that takes place right outside Gollum’s cave and only features him when he happens to pass by!MAn thIS iS GoNnA Be GReAt!
A 3 part, nine hour series on how Sauron corrupted the race of men.Turns out the “Rings of power” were Cock rings, that promised 3 more inches. They all tried to woo the same woman, who was really Sauron in drag. Ala Bugs Bunny.
This pitch got more interesting than I expected
You’re gonna make me rewatch Jack Black’s lord of the cock rings aren’t you
Hey, this doesn’t look like Pismo Beach!
Billnado!
An eighteen-part series on the most intricate, anal, and batshit fuckin’ boring lore! What IS a Gandalf’s robe made from, anyway? You’ll thrill at 165-minute movie dedicated to the cultivation, harvesting, weaving, and stitching of a wizard’s robe! Vast minutes will be dedicated to telling why it’s a twill instead of plain weave! What stitching is used!It’s WORLDBUILDING, and thus GOOD.
YOU FUCKERS WANTED TOM BOMBADIL? WE’LL GIVE YOU 20 HOURS OF TOM FUCKING BOMBADIL!!!
The Lord of the Rings: The Scouring of the Shire, Part I.
oh my god, yes. “Sharkey’s Plan”
If you asked me the question: “What major film franchise of the past 30 years is least in need of a reboot?” I would’ve said “Lord of the Rings.”* (Excluding the MCU, of course)
Add ‘Back to the Future’ to the list.
The Austin Powers disrespect will not stand
Ready to feel ancient? Back to the Future isn’t a film franchise of the last 30 years. The last of the three movies is now 33 years old.
GET OFF MY LAWN
And the whole point of setting the second one in 2015 was that was 30 years into the future of 1985, just as 1955 was thirty years in the past.
Linkin Park is now on classic rock stations!?! When did I get so old???
And the entire plot of all 3 movies occurs in the past.
I just peed in my pants a little.
Those hold up too
I do not need a Harry Potter reboot, nor do I need any additional Fantastic Beasts films.
Well, if Avatar taught us anything, it’s going to need more blue people.
Gonna adjust the tint on my t.v. and rewatch the movies to make everyone blue.
Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The RohirrimFinally the story of Helm Hammerhand will be told (in animated form)!I would have preferred adaptations based on Beren & Luthien, or the War of Wrath, but you take what you can get.
Already been done.
…but the Avatar technology existed when Jackson cobbled together The Hobbit, so it’ll probably look more like that.Don’t even joke about that!
Do you even read the articles you crib off of? (bolding mine) AVC:Will Peter Jackson be involved? – Seems doubtfulActual article:No filmmakers have been attached to the projects as yet, but in a statement to Variety, Jackson and his main “Lord of the Rings” collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens said Warner Bros. and Embracer “have kept us in the loop every step of the way.” “We look forward to speaking with them further to hear their vision for the franchise moving forward,” Jackson, Walsh and Boyens said.AVC:However, “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.”We have to assume this means that the movies will have nothing to do with The Rings Of Power and will be a total reboot.
Will the reboot be 3 films again?
How faithful will the reboots be to the original films?The fuck? WB and New Line specifically said they aren’t remaking the LotR movies and are talking about spin-offs. And, yes, they obviously aren’t going to take RoP into consideration (unless they arrive at some Sony/Disney style agreement). Do you read the trades that you’re trying to make articles out of?
Look, this article at least twice refers to someone called Zazlov. Accuracy is clearly not anyone’s priority here.
Zazlov is one of the orcs right?
LOOKS LIKE MEAT’S BACK ON THE MENU
So you’re saying it’s going to be a culinary exploration of Middle Earth? I’m down. Get Stanley Tucci to host.
I didn’t even notice that stunning incompetence. Zazlov isn’t a surname anywhere, in any culture. Literally every app, browser, whatever, puts the red under it show it’s a misspelling and it somehow made it into this article… twice.
To be fair, most surnames even correctly spelled generally get flagged by spell checks, particularly odd ones like Zardoz or whatever the Warner Bros guy is called.
“The red line”
Only microsoft word does that
What? That’s not true at all. Every real time spellcheck does some version of that. I’m typing this in chrome right now and if I type jdhdghsj it has a red line under it.
I love having to click through to the article the AV Club’s sloppily summarizing in order to figure out basic facts. For instance: what the fuck are “Freemode” and “Embracer,” what do they have to do with anything, and why do the people quoted keep bringing them up? (Turns out the former is a subsidiary of the latter and is the actual owner of the adaptive rights to LOTR and Hobbit.)
Isn’t Freemode that movie with Mick Jagger and Emilio Estevez?
No, you’re thinking of Freejack. Freemode was a movie about Ryan Reynolds as a video game NPC who becomes self-aware.
I wanted to make a joke à la “I’m pretty sure the AV Club newsroom consists just of a few interns copy-pasting press releases into ChatGPT, adding ‘make it snarky in the style of the AV Club”. The depressing thing is that I tried just that (with the Variety article on the subject as prompt), and, well, it’s probably better and more accurate than what was written here. I mean …Stop the presses, folks! Warner Bros. Pictures has just announced that they’re revamping the “Lord of the Rings” film franchise! You heard that right, the beloved J.R.R. Tolkien books are getting multiple films thanks to newly-installed studio leaders Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, who brokered a deal to develop the projects through WB label New Line Cinema.Now, you might be thinking, “Wait a minute, didn’t Peter Jackson already do a trilogy based on ‘The Lord of the Rings’ that grossed nearly $3 billion worldwide?” And you would be correct! But fear not, dear readers, because apparently, the vast, complex, and dazzling universe dreamed up by J.R.R. Tolkien remains largely unexplored. So, of course, we need more movies to explore it.No filmmakers have been attached to the projects as yet, but apparently, Jackson and his main “Lord of the Rings” collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens are being kept in the loop. We can’t wait to hear their thoughts on the matter, considering they’re the ones who brought us the 17 Academy Award-winning films.But who needs filmmakers anyway when you have the power of Embracer Group’s Freemode division? They made the adaptive rights deal for books including “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” and will be billing it under the name Middle-earth Enterprises. CEO Lee Guinchard promises to “honor the past, look to the future, and adhere to the strongest level of quality and production values.” Sounds like a plan, Lee!Inaugural projects and timelines were not immediately disclosed, so we’ll just have to sit tight and wait for more news. But in the meantime, Warner Bros. has a packed upcoming slate with “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” Ezra Miller’s “The Flash,” and the hotly anticipated “Barbie” from director Greta Gerwig and stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. And don’t forget about Jason Statham facing off against a prehistoric shark yet again in “Meg 2: The Trench” and DC’s “Blue Beetle.”But let’s be real, folks. We’re all just counting down the days until we get our next fix of Timothee Chalamet in “Dune: Part Two” and the candyman origin story “Wonka.” And to cap off the year, we’ll have Jason Momoa in “Aquaman and the Lost Kin” and the musical “The Color Purple.” It’s shaping up to be a wild ride, folks!
I *wish* Timothee Chalamet was in a Candyman prequel…
Yes, this is indeed better than the avclub article.
I was thinking the same thing after reading the statement, “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.”
They’d have to be talking about spin-offs because, while Jackson didn’t stick with the text 100% of the time, he hewed pretty close to them. So what else in the original trilogy “remain(ed) largely unexplored”? Tom Bombadil? Erkenbrand? The Grey Company? Umm… the Pukel-men maybe (and even Jackson showed them for a second)? Certainly not enough to justify a reboot of LOTR. And of all the problems the Hobbit trilogy had, having too much source material to cover wasn’t one of them.They could be talking about the appendices I suppose, Jackson only touched on those occasionally.
No
I can’t decide if they should continue to leave out Tom Bombadil or put him in to annoy the hardcore fans.
It we be just Tom Bombadil. We’ll see all the stuff that happened in the original trilogy, but from Tom’s perspective, just off-camera from the orginals.
My pitch:We know that hobbits and dwarves are little, but what this screenplay presupposes is – what if they were normal human heights?We will save millions on special effects.
They did that in the D&D movie from 2000s. The Dwarf character really was just a dude with bad posture.
That weird The Watch thing did that. In comparison, Carrot was just a bit tall I guess. I’m not sure why or what it was going for.
In the books at least, it’s explained that Carrot was adopted and raised by dwarves from a very young age, so he’s a dwarf culturally and other dwarves accept him as one of their own because he knows the language and customs, to keep it short.
And in Hawk The Slayer, the giant is just a bloke who is the tall end of normal.
If Gary Oldman can play a little person walking around on his fucking knees then anyone can! Don’t tell me we need real little people! Make it happen!
That sounds ableist.
Galavant already pulled off that gag, along with having the “Dwarves” fight a race of “Giants” who are the exact same height.
Plus, Nick Frost as the lead giant was a bit shorter than the others. Fantastic gag all around.
Oh, Galavant. So lucky to get two seasons of that crazy, funny show.
Hang on, I speak Zaslav.We know hobbits and dwarves are little, but what if we took actual little people and had them roleplay as hobbits and dwarves on a remote island in extreme situations for prizes? We’ll have them cook, go on blind dates with a random person who could be roleplaying an elf, a human, or an orc depending on the results of a dice roll, and compete in physical challenges that will not be exploitative or humiliating in any way, no siree.
I’m surprised nobody pointed out they spelled Zaslav right and then immediately called him Zazlov.
Bros call him “The Zazz”
Middle-earth is based on
England and the greater United Kingdom. Maybe try making the movie
there? Just a thought.
Is it? I look at the map of Middle-Earth and see Europe, not the UK.
“Tolkien described the region in which the Hobbits lived as “the North-West of the Old World, east of the Sea”, and the north-west of the Old World is essentially Europe, especially Britain”
Middle-earth is quite explicitly based on, well, the earth*, but millions of years ago. It’s right there in the name!*Well, the earth as filtered through the sensibilities of an Englishman living in the mid-twentieth century—hence all the people living to the south and east being monolithically brown, inscrutable, and evil.
Thats not accurate though he had a bunch of white people be the villain the movie just never used them. Like the people who attack the Shire are white and the Black Numerians who are white but fight for Sauron.
Hmm, no, the way to disprove my assertion is to find examples of Haradrim and Easterlings who are not portrayed as inscrutable and evil. But yes, the Black Numenoreans, the white colonizers who showed up to educate and then dominate the brown Haradrim, are also evil.
That is because both groups fell under the sway of Morgoth early on and later Sauron. They were not inherently evil, they became that through domination. And they got screwed over (Easterlings specifically) by Morgoth but still served him out of fear.
For sure. Tolkien’s stand-in for Britain was Tol Eressea, the island the Valar used to transport the first elves from Middle Earth to Valinor. As originally conceived, the story of the elves and their war with Morgoth (what we now think of as the First Age) was meant to be Britain’s origin story. As Tolkien continued to rewrite the stories, though, the connections between Middle Earth and actual locations in Europe diminished.
It’s The Shire that was supposed to be England. And definitely not New Zealand.
It’s a fantasy, pastoral version of England. So, you know, New Zealand.
It’s much more localised than that. Hall Green was the Shire, the Black Country was Mordor, Mosely the Old Forest. Not sure where the rest of you are getting this shit from? The inspiration for pretty much all of Middle Earth is found within 20 miles of Birmingham.
It…doesn’t sound like a reboot at all? Sounds more like other stories made into movies.
Get ready for ‘Second Breakfast’ a lifestyle show where Bilbo invites special guests around for the titular meal and a discussion of what’s going on in the world.
Is this it then? Have we finally run out of things to make movies about?Well I guess we had a good run.
Since at first take this all seems to be an incoherent mess, here’s some jumbled thoughts on it:I can’t ever keep up with the players from the Tolkien estate and their various views, and I know Christopher seemed to have it in for Peter Jackson, but it seems like we’re headed right down the path that Christopher dreaded.Looking back on it, in some respects the trilogy captured lightning in a bottle while later endeavors (Hobbit, Rings of Power, even Game of Thrones at the end) stumbled at various points. So yay let’s keep trying that.I’m afraid this is going to turn out like Rings of Power — okay, pretty good at times, but just not great.
And if I’m Amazon / Bezos, am I having buyer’s remorse over shelling out a cool quarter billion just for the rights to… what, exactly, do they have the rights to, again?
Absolutely horrific, inaccurate clickbait. You should all be ashamed of yourselves for the unmitigated dreck you’ve been putting out recently. This time, I’m out for good. Fuck this. Fuck you.
I keep saying I’m going to do this.
Maybe today will be the day.
And yet I keep coming back. Old habits die hard and I have nowhere else to go. (:
Old Hobbits Die Hard
BOOM! There’s your reboot!
AV Club is junk food.
For me, it’s time to consume it in moderation.
Promise?
I know you don’t want to feel challenged the way you do when I’m around. Don’t worry, it’ll happen the moment I stop instinctively typing “av” into my browser when I open it.
Guy Posting on Right Thread
Is this meant to imply I’m posting on the wrong one? They’re not rebooting the trilogy.
No no, it was a joke about how your comment was vague enough (but so accurate) that it could literally be posted on almost any AV Club article from the past several months. And then a meta-reference to Guy Posting on Wrong Thread.
See ya on Monday!
Should remake it with an all-bitch cast. Break da glass ceiling!
I can already see how this is going to play out-
1. Sam and Frodo will have gay sex during the journey to Mordor.
2. Gandalf The White will be a black woman played by Viola Davis.
3. Gimli will be played by Simu Liu and be called Kim Lee.
4. Merri and Pippin will be lesbian hobbits.
Well, folks do seem to dig that Viola Davis.
There’s only one question anyone should be asking: What does it feel like to have no soul?
Guys. Just make the bloody Hobbit and do it right this time. You can even re-use some of the cast. Just please, fix the tone. No Azog the Defiler, no Legolas, no tragic Elf-Dwarf romance. One long film or two normal-length movies. Please.
They could probably just edit the existing Hobbit movies down into one movie that tells a tight story, true to the book. There are already several fan edits that try to do that.
I should really check those out. But they can’t restore the stuff from the books that should have made it in: Bilbo mocking the spiders in rhyme, the Elvish feast spring to mind. And if WB are determined to make new Tolkien movies, The Hobbit deserves to be made well. The Children of Hurin not so much.
Remember when blockbuster content didn’t make you tired?
It would be better with Ezra.
I dunno, that kid’s not proving very reliable.
Fingolfin vs. Morgoth or we riot!
It will be woke garbage. I bet my children’s lives on it. And then the audience will be called racist/sexist/transphobic for not liking it. Guaranteed.
As long as there’s lots of yelling of “No!” and “Frodo!!” and added in scenes that weren’t in the book I’m sure it will do swell.
However, this sounds like Warner Bros. will reboot The Hobbit and LOTR, proper.You’ve referred to this as a reboot like half a dozen times. Nothing points to a reboot of the original trilogy or The Hobbit. I believe they’re planning to make more movies or shows set during those books, which I’m honestly okay with. They even specify that it’s spin-offs. You’re better off deleting this and rewriting it, assuming it even needed to be written in the first place. But hey, clickbait titles are the name of the game, amiright?
I always wondered what Barliman Butterbur was up to in the year between Frodo & Co.’s visits.
“If the idea is to drain as much blood from this stone as possible, to having a bloodless stone”The fuck is the second half of this sentence trying to say? Aside from “we desperately need to hire copy editors”