Please don’t.
We saw what you did to The Hobbit. The story of the Silmarils will be 185 movies long and find a need to invent characters and story lines where there needs none more.
He wasn’t meant to direct those films (that was del Toro) and was attached late into pre-production. Rather than the several years of pre-production on Lord, he had about a year of Hobbit. Plus the studio demanded a trilogy.
It hurt Peter - he knew it wasn’t on par then and there and you can see it in the making of docs.
I doubt he’ll take on a deal that doesn’t guarantee the preproduction time he wants.
It’s unfair the way he inhereted the blame by trying to fix a messed up production.
Bits of it are actually pretty good too, I think a lot of the first film is actually alright. My wife and I recently watched the extended editions and on their own they’re broadly decent family films (well 3 is medicore to bad). It’s the comparison to lotr that suffers and that largely seems to be a byproduct of messed up production.
I was genuinely happy to be in Middle Earth again, and there are plenty of fan edits to make it watchable plot/romance wise
hopefully this time they put all the songs in
Do Tom Bombadil first.
That’s what Stephen Colbert is working on, I believe.
And they said Foundation was impossible to film
Christ on a fuck, no.
Trademarks are why btw. Tolkien stuff is about to start hitting the public domain to a capitalist. Trademarks keep regular people from using the public domain and making products with it, only for the capitalists
2043 is still a while away.
So was 2016 and 2008 and 2001.
The Hobbit is first to be public domain in 2032, and they made those movies over 10 years ago
British copyright is life +70 so it enters public domain on 1 Jan 2044.
Can you just circle back to Temeraire please?
