The more I learn about this movie the less I like it. And I didn’t like the idea of some talkshow Hollywood host thinking he knows how to make movies in the first place.
It literally just sounds like shitty fan fiction made by someone rich enough to turn it into a shitty movie instead of posting it to fan fic forums like a normal person.
I would also like to make a movie. I will ask my dad to help me get it into production.
Yeah, weird to partner with Warner
Well, Warner Bros. is the only one who has the film rights to Lord of the Rings…
Ah fair, but even so to commit to it I guess means the work is more important to be shared than bare a grudge?
Colbert is a long time MASSIVE LoTR fan. He has made it very well known over the years on his shows. Hell, it earned him a cameo in the Hobbit films. LOL! It would not surprise me in the least that he would be willing to suck it up and partner with WB solely to get to do this passion project.
As long as he’s not rattling the cage, there is (theoretically) no reason to hold a grudge.
By the same vein, I’m guessing that if they’d persuaded him to tone down the political content and critique of the Tonight Show, it might well have survived.
Hey, weird idea but stay with me: A fat orc wearing orange warpaint, slightly demented, always slightly tilting forward, occasionally shitting himself, as the main villain.
Absurdly implausible! D:
The merger hasn’t happened yet. Also, pretty soon you won’t be able to do major projects without being under the umbrella of some fascist.
It’s too bad Colbert and his family have to work or they’ll starve
the plot of his movie will come from chapters of “The Fellowship of the Ring” that didn’t make it into Jackson’s 2001 adaptation.
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
I heard that too, but in reality it’s supposed to be placed 14 years after the ending and be about Sam’s daughter teaming up with Merry and Pippin or some bullshit like that. It sounds so shit.
The whole “oh I read this chapter of the books and thought it would be cool to adapt” is a weird little lie to make people buy into the idea and then slip in the actual fan-fic plot after people have gotten the wrong idea of what he’s trying to do.
Well, that’s completely different! I’d be a lot more confident it won’t suck if the Hobbit movies didn’t exist.
Oh God. Everytime I’m reminded that the hobbit movies exist I feel something in me die a little bit, lol.
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like a short story drawn out into three movies.”
For real @,@
It’s also just the fact that they decided to make it an epic when The Hobbit is more of a fun adventure/fairytale book for kids. It should have been a small story with a few big elements in it. Kinda like Willow, actually. A vibe a bit like that, but then translated into Tolkien.
All this big special effects nightmare and cramming these big bombastic battles into every movie just felt so off putting to me.
It would have been better if it was one movie and if they had had the restraint to make it more like a traditional family fantasy movie.
I blame studio interference. Idiots who don’t understand nor respect what this world is and what it isn’t.
And while I’m aware that Colbert is a supposed Tolkien mega fan, I don’t trust him to be able to do a good job. Especially not when it’s revealed to be a fan fic he wrote with his son instead of him attempting to put Tolkien’s words to screen. To me, that displays a special level of arrogance to greenlight a fan fic set in Tolkien’s world.
Not really a fan of the Gollum movie either, but that seems to be more like a love letter to the fans than an arrogant assumption that because you like Tolkien, you’re somehow good enough to write like him. Ew. No. Just no.
Must be nice to be rich enough to quit your cushy day job to make a terrible fan fic movie with your nepo kid. I’m sorry, I just have close to zero respect for Hollywood people and their abilities to create worthwhile art. It all seems like vanity projects.
Oh, the River’s Daugh-ter!
That would make sense. It’s a whole adventure by itself and was almost like half of the first book.
It is where they got their swords though. So where do the swords come from later?
This… is actually promising? Isn’t he a massive LOTR nerd.
So was Peter Jackson, and it worked until it didn’t because he was actually good at making movies.
He is. This can only be a good thing.
What in the name of Hollywood franchise filmmaking makes you think this can only be a good thing?
I’m open to it being good. I hope it’s good. But I also accept that this can be a steaming pile of shit, or more likely, a bland piece of mediocre slop.
Wait a minute…now that I think about it, didn’t Will Smith make a movie with his son?
Nevermind, this is going to slap, hard.
I generally trust Colbert and/or at least give him the benefit of the doubt. I’m sure he’s done something I don’t care for, but I cannot think of a single thing I’m aware he’s been involved with that I haven’t liked. Well, I didn’t watch the Colbert Report mostly because while I found it hilarious, I could only take that concept in tiny doses in the same way some folks can’t read too much of the Onion because it’s just too fucking close to reality. lol.
And yeah, with his passion about LotR… I’m hopeful for good things. And I say this having not watched the Hobbit trilogy once I heard they added all the crap to it. I don’t expect movies to be 100% faithful, but I want them to try. Like imho how The Expanse series - even changing up stuff from the book, but the authors were in on the writing and they basically just introduced characters sooner. It worked. And other changes they made were mostly translating from one form of media to another where different things work differently.
Nevermind, this is going to slap, hard.
I hope so. Very very much! :)
Chloe Zhao was a huge Buffy fan and her enthusiasm for the show got Sarah Michelle Gellar to sign-on to her reboot.
Hollywood loves franchises and reboots because of the built-in audience, but her pilot was so bad they scrapped it entirely.
Nothing about this project is at all comparable to The Expanse, which was adapting a series of books, with the authors involvement.
This is adapting a few chapters, without the deceased authors involvement.
A much more relevant comparison would be The Rings Of Power, which was similarly based on an extremely limited scope of Tolkien’s work and while I’m sure some people enjoyed that show, it was broadly very much disliked, as evidenced by it being canceled.
While others are free to disagree, I think it’s fair to say that every Tolkien project, after The LotR trilogy, has been bad, or at best, just not very good.
I’m not saying that this is destined to be bad, I was just taking issue with the notion that it’s guaranteed to be good.
He comes out in full bombadil hey merry doll
So Colbert will make an LOTR movie and Stewart will be president…? That feels like a good sequel to the 90s/00s.
Well just remember that there one was this massive nerd that made a pretty good movie series about the books that then made a very fucking bad movie series about the prequel, just because movie execs forced him too.
I don’t think Colbert to be suckered in such a deal, but just a reminder that nobody is perfect.
Possibly the biggest of them.
Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo — Sam, Merry and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure
Well it’s obviously more than 14 years IRL but hopefully the original cast could pull it of!
The film’s official logline reads, “Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began.”
Wait, is this saying 14 years after Frodo dies the other three hobbies go to retrace their first steps of the adventure?
Stupid English and vague commas.
Edit: Too damn early, just remembered he set sail for the west shortly after the story which is also called passing.
A video shot across my doomscrolling feed in which Colbert was talking to Peter Jackson about the missing Fellowship chapters to do with Crickhollow and the barrow downs, so I guess it’ll somehow be about those events.
Nobody tell them
The movie will be based on the six chapters of The Fellowship of the Rings that were not included in Jackson’s Fellowship movie.
That is intriguing. I am really curious how they will pull that off.
Apparently covering from the sale of Bag End, through Crickhollow, the Old Forest–meeting Tom Bombadil–to the Barrow Downs.
I expect this could be an interesting movie, I have missed these parts. They are less directly connected to the story of the ring (except where the Nazgûl appear), but I think it adds to the understanding of the background events occurring at that time in Middle Earth.
I for one welcome any Tom Bombadil.
Just as long as its not played by Jack black as hes a massive cockwomble. Matt Berry or gtfo
Really that could happen anytime so it’s fine doing it later
Oh this is a great idea. I haven’t read the books in over 20 years. It isn’t creating new stuff, it’s just adapting stuff that hasn’t been adapted yet.
“Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo…
The fuck you mean passing? Frodo never died, he went to Valinor. Not even the first sentence in and it’s fucked.
Me right now, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc
His leaving for Valinor is his passing.
Valinor does not grant them immortality. It would heal them and allow them to live out the remainder of their lives in peace but they will eventually die.
Its a pretty cool concept, I like the Breeland stories. Although I mostly remember them from Lord of the Rings Online rather than the books 😅 Hope it will be good!
LOTRO
I wish that game wasn’t so damn grindy. I play it every few years for a while before I get bored with it. :/ But it’s mostly “go off and kill X of these animals” or “go here, then go here, then go here” crap. It’s fun to explore the world… except… all the areas below your level are simply boring and all the areas above your level are go-here-and-die-immediately bullshit, and there’s not really anything to do.
Almost sounds like it’s a classic MMORPG :D
I have to try to get into it one of these days, but since I never did before it might feel dated to me at this point.
A shallow response I know, but … what the hell timeline is this!!??
I believe, present article excluded, it is generally characterized as “the worst”. :)
I’m … actually a little disappointed? This sounds interesting and I’m looking forward to it, but I was really hoping he’d follow through on The Chronicles of Amber series.
Yeah that’s one for the completionists, I’ll pass.
It’s arguably the best chapter from all the books and they left it out. You don’t need to read all the missing bits, but maybe take some time to meet Tom and Goldberry?
Ho ho Tom Bombadil-o that chapter?
I don’t know for sure-o,
but that an im-pli-ca-tion
