"LOTR: The search for more money"
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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Why do they assume we are all huge fans of Gollum? Like that dogshit videogame from last year wasn't enough
The dipshit exec responsible for milking Gollums flacid tits will make more money if they were to be fired than most of us will in a few lifetimes combined.
I really enjoyed the first 3 movies, couldn't get behind The Hobbit at all. I don't have high hopes for this.
Hobbits were fun mid-tier movies, if you don't bring in your expectations from lotr
And don't bring your expectations from actually having read the book.
Yeah that should be obvious
Yea I think that might be what ruined it for me. The bar was raised pretty high with LOTR, and The Hobbit was my favourite book growing up.
The first one isn't bad at all. Second one's meh af snd the last is one of the worst fantasy films ever made.
in its The Lord of the Rings franchise
Imagine being that callous. I will never consider anything WB does with it to be anything other than fanfiction desperate for attention. The Tolkiens' work is finite and absolute.
Goddamn. I read this a few days ago elsewhere and seriously thought it was a parody.
WB is going to do to this franchise what it has done to the Harry Potter and the DC (well DC had a couple decent ones) and take what was good and run it straight into the ground.
Had they said they were going to do the Silmarillion or the like I might had been excited but nope just more bullshit.
I believe the story is that the original three Lord of The Rings films were licensed under an old film option deal (as in the option predated Peter Jackson working on the project). That deal was made when the Tolkien estate was under different management or something. And the current regime is not doing any film licensing for Silmarillion or anything else.
I think this is also related to the Rings of Power Amazon series. I think they sublicensed the rights to the LOTR appendices from the same movie option that the Peter Jackson films were made from, but they couldn't get access to a Silmarillion.
And the current regime is not doing any film licensing for Silmarillion or anything else.
After seeing what happened to the hobbit, who could blame them?
The real title is The Hunt for Red Gollum.