>Jackson revealed that he and studio Warner Bros were in discussion with Tolkien’s estate to adapt previously unavailable works, most notably The Silmarillion>“Christopher Tolkien edited and published other (J.R.R. Tolkien) books – The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales – I mean there’s a lot more Tolkien writing that would actually make great movies that were subsequently edited and released by Christopher,” he explained. “But he just absolutely not… those rights have never been available.”>“But Christopher passed away recently, well, I suppose two or three years ago now, and the younger Tolkiens, this next generation, are now running the estate. They’re much more open to talking, so a combination of Warners and us have been talking to some of the younger Tolkien members who are now part of the board, about the possibility of actually licensing the rights to some of the other books. It would be nice to get away from the appendices and get something a bit more meaty.”https://www.nme.com/news/film/peter-jackson-in-talks-to-adapt-j-r-r-tolkiens-the-silmarillion-into-films-3945593
>>220526557Oh no. This is not good.
finally
>>220526557Jackson's LOTR is bad.It took me two decades of reading Tolkien's work to understand this
>>220526557Gregg predicted thishttps://youtu.be/83etthnOEUk?si=szDRJiEQ391S4_1o
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That Aragorn movie needs to giga-bomb.
>>220526557It's literally unadapatable. Unlike LOTR, the Silmarillion isn't a narrarive story, it's basically a recollection of Middle-earth history written in archaic English. It's just nonsense and would never translate well into film.
He'll fuck it up.Studio will fuck it up.
>>220527088This. Read the books. They are all about friendship and enduring hardships for the greater good. There is very little action let alone all the glorification of war that is ever present in Hackson’s films.
Cast Feanor
>>220528797So he will just do small parts.
What about a film where the corpse of JRR Tolkien is revived into an immortal lich and he wages war against Hollywood for destroying his works
>>220526938Re-watch the hobbit
>>220528797>written in archaic english I agree that it shouldn't be adapted, but that's not true.
>>220528797And for that reason is going to be KINO, i trust peter jackson
>>220528797Children of Hurin is a easy movie to make tho.
>>220527088The huge spans of everyone walking through various forests not saying a word to one another during Fellowship is fucking absurd.Once you get to Two Towers it gets great though.
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>>220527088No songs ruins it for me. Song of Durin and the funeral of Boromir are so KINO it's unreal.
>>220528978Is that the one with the tragic incest in it?
>>220526557>Tolkien estate now under new management and can work on keeping untainted Tolkien works safe or put into the hands of people who would actually do right by the literature >still in talks with WarnersI don't get it, do they permanently own the sole rights to create feature length films in the Tolkien universe while Amazon gets to fuck around with a garbage series nobody asked for and nobody likes? Why not just ride put the term length of the contract and give the rights to a more competent studio to work with?(though I can see how that would be a challenge in and of itself)
>>220529037Yes. Also the one time Morgoth is actually KINO.
Better him than amazon. But he'd need like 10 years to perfectly craft it which won't happen
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>>220528797It could be done as a fireside storyThink princess bride typeYou could even make it a TV show, which would better fit the pacing
