Having now watched The Amazon thing and also the new Game of Thrones - got to say the latter is way, way better (better TV, at least). I wanted to like the LOTR thing more than I do. Was expecting to prefer it, too.
It's funny.
Was that the one with the line 'Pass me another elf Sergeant, this one's split' ?
Don't recall that.
He would have finished Goddam off then and there, but pity stayed his hand. "It's a pity I've run out of bullets", he
I think that was one of Mary Gentle's, concerning Orcs.
Perhaps we'll finally get to see Tom Bombadil?
Ah, this is going to be... interesting. James Corden as Sam?
Please tell me you're joking? Karaoke night at The Prancing Pony?
I won't be watching it, then. Puts the old tin lid on it.
I was thinking of casting Matt Lucas.
As in 're-boot'? Like "same story, different working"?
The War of the Rohirrim is apparently out in April ‘24.
Some of us do. But nobody here.
Rumour is, it's not a remake of LOTR but will "explore" the other materials, or stuff that is mentioned in passing in the book/appendices. I dunno if the rights cover stuff like The Silmarillion or the Histories of Middle-earth. There's tonnes of stuff in Silmarillion alone, as it's disjointed but entire chapters of it would make movies...
Absolutely. But it's the sort of unimaginative casting a US based studio might do with what is essentially, a very British thing! I refuse to watch anything he's in. Apparently, they originally wanted Sean Connery for Gandalf and I'd never have watched the films if he'd been in them, either.
Yes, that was me being rude about US casting of these kinds of films but tbh, part of me is terrified they might actually do it.
