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The One Ring Forums:
Tolkien Topics: Movie Discussion: The Lord of The Rings:
Not a fan of this idea that the filmmakers need Tolkienian "guard rails":
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Chen G.
Mithlond
Feb 15, 7:59pm
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Not a fan of this idea that the filmmakers need Tolkienian "guard rails"
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There are two arguments here and we need to clearly delineate them:
That - not being an adaptation of a novel - it will have that uncanny "arsatz Tolkien" feel that stuff like Rings of Power has. Now THAT'S a very reasonable concern - even though Gollum relies on more material than people think and is a single film, not a 42+ hour show - but it hardly circumscribes the project. But either way it is a DIFFERENT argument from...
Saying that these writers are not good enough to write well without having Tolkien as guard-rails. That's an argument that can really only be said by people with a superficial knowledge of their oeuvre. They had no problem almost winning an Oscar for an ORIGINAL screenplay for Heavenly Creatures, to name just one examples. They had their ups and downs - who doesn't? - but they're great writers.
I just think it's always cause for excitement to see the same core creatives come back to "their" film series. Jackson and Weiner as producers, de Luca and Kamins as executive producers, Walsh and Boyens as writers, Serkis and Wood as actors, but also Dan Hennah as production designer, Alan Lee and John Howe as concept artists, etc...That will never not be exciting, at least to me. What other film series of this scope has this degree of involvement from so many of the same people so far down the line? It's a uniquely Herculean achievement.
Ontop of that, I just find it Romantic that filmmakers can, all this time later, come back to an idea that had been percolating since the earliest conceptual phases of the project (circa early 1997). If we had no trouble being excited for the bridge film in 2006-2009, then I see no reason to not see that excitement revived today. Stories are plot, but they're also structure and the idea of putting some extra adhesive between the end of The Battle of the Five Armies and the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring is not an unappealing concept, especially now that we have the symmetry of two trilogies.
(This post was edited by Chen G. on Feb 15, 8:05pm)
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(Mithlond) on Feb 15, 8:00pm
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(Mithlond) on Feb 15, 8:02pm
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