The PJ trilogy still holds up today.
That's a pretty high bar
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Just don’t watch it.
You don’t have to watch every damn thing involving your fandom. It’s pure capitalistic greed at this point.
Let a franchise fucking die already.
Demand better movies and don’t engage with film as product. Find passionate storytellers and not greedy corporate executives looking to milk every last drop of nostalgia for profits.
Exactly. Quit feeding them
Still haven't watched rings of power, probably not now that I cancelled Prime after the ad fiasco.
Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War were fun - but very non canon.
Anyone who bought Gollum at all should take what you're saying to heart. Zero true fans of the Middle Earth world would put any money down for that game. If anyone bought it because they were a fan they deserved to lose their money, zero of the marketing material looked like it was going to be a quality product or decent addition to the story.
Rings of Power was enjoyable to watch, I treated it as billion-dollar fanfic and didn't worry that everything was out of place
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New “Lord of the Rings” movies scheduled to be cancelled after completion by David Zazlav for a tax break
I desperately hope so. The amount of effort that went into the current movies cannot be matched by anybody in Hollywood except maybe Christopher Nolan.
Or you know... Peter Jackson again.
I know I wouldn't like his attempt at that in its entirety, if it happens, but yes.
Would give multiple stars to this comment if I could.
Is it just me, or had anyone else lost all hope for good Lotr shows after Rings of Power? I saw lots of potential squandered by poor writing, and I fear more Lotr content is just going to be more content, not good stories.
Christopher Tolkien was blocking a lot of things. Even the Jackson films sneaked by and wouldn't have been made of he could have stopped it.
He's dead now, and the new heirs to the rights like money. They also have about 20 years before the copyright expires. Which isn't that long; that's about as much time between now and the Jackson films. To keep ahead of the clock, they're greenlighting a lot of garbage and risk running their franchise into the ground.
Yep. Money grab.
I lost all hope when they greenlit the license to be used for....Golum.
Nasty capitalistses...
So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us
And since this is on Lemmy... the answer is pirate it when it comes out then bitch about how bad it is. Then turn it into Linux memes and communism.
The copyright expires in 2044. The Perter Jackson series came out 2001-2003. From a studio point it is approaching the now or never time. They need to make one within the next few years to be able to make a 3rd one just before the end of copyright. From a studio buisness perspective this makes sense and is kind of a no-brainer.
So I tried to find more info on it and it seems like they are not remaking the trilogy. Multiple movies set in various time periods before the Hobbit and LotR are currently written. That's not really great but it is way better than a remake IMHO.
This shit needs to stop. Same with Marvel, Star Trek, Star Wars…. All of this shit needs to stop.
The new Trek series have been, with one exception, great. Oh, do you mean the fuck terrible movies? Yeah.
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Don't worry, neighbor. Humanity's about done here and allll that shit will stop.
As a Star Wars fan I say this shit has gotten so egregious that for most intents and purposes it has already stopped.
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Gondor has no remake. Gondor needs no remake.
Alas, it is not for Gondor to decide what the copyright holders do with them.
This is an article from February 2023 about War of the Rohirrim and similar projects, not a remake of the 2001 trilogy.
If I was going to do more lotr content, I'd probably do something with the Eastern front of the war. What did the blue wizards get up to?
Likely rot in some pit
The thing is that, even if these new ones are the most awful media ever produced. It doesn't change anything about the old ones. They will still stay awesome. They don't depreciate just because other media exist. Or that would have already happened with the Rings of Power.
I just wish they put this time and effort into other franchises. I want more Discworld.
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Hard no
and they are going to mess with perfection wtf.
Maybe they're gonna do the The Hobbit right this time?
Oh who am I kidding. It'll be the fanfic backstory of Tom Bombadil or something.
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