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Stephen Colbert Set to Adapt Next 'Lord of the Rings' Movie
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But LOTR is perfect.
He can redirect the hobbit if he wants.
sounds like it's more of an epilogue to LOTR.
The only way I would consider this acceptable is if by "first steps if their adventure" what they mean is the whole section that the movie trilogy skips (tom bombadil, the barrow down, etc).
That might actually be the case because I believe they actually have rights to that material since it's part of the original trilogy.
It looks like that's the case!
At the very least this demonstrates some deliberation and intent behind the project.
3 old hobbits travel around to relive old glories... the bucket list in Middle Earth?
Turns into a drunk, stoned on pipeweed, just trying to get to Mordor comedy adventure film
Pineapple Express: Mordor
Dude where's my shadowmere?
Merry and pippin go to helms deep
Frodo died??? Has anyone told....uh....the other characters???
Silmarillion maybe?
Like trying to make a movie out of the Bible, cover to cover
Maybe he’s gonna do The Silmarillion
I don't think the Tolkien estate is willing to option Silmarillion or any other content. Far as I know, all of the film and TV content is based on a single, very old license agreement from before they soured on film and video. As a result it only covers The Hobbit and LOTR. The Amazon show was therefore restricted to the LOTR appendices only.
I love pointing out that Amazon made an entire show out of footnotes.
and it really shows with how stretched out and shit that show's writing is. They would've been better off to make it a comparatively short trilogy at best and not a series even if they kept all of the odd choices.