DeeCee Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 LOTR TV series possibly coming to Amazon. http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-1202606519/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlborn Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Yes please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeCee Posted November 5, 2017 Author Share Posted November 5, 2017 Hopefully Bezos will follow the same funding method he’s now using for Blue Origin. Sell a billion dollars worth of Amazon stock each year to fund each season. That should be enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxtreme Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I don't know how I feel about this. The LOTR trilogy is my favorite movie series of all-time, and adapting that story to TV... I'm not sure it can be done, at least faithfully? Whatever I guess, it can't diminish the original adaptation for me anyway so, I'll check it out if/when it comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orestes Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Wonder how they'd do it. 1 season per book? 2 seasons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeCee Posted November 5, 2017 Author Share Posted November 5, 2017 I’d go with 6 seasons of 8-10 episodes. Another question. Do you go back to New Zealand or go somewhere new for a cleaner break from the movies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aabattery Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 17 minutes ago, DeeCee said: I’d go with 6 seasons of 8-10 episodes. Another question. Do you go back to New Zealand or go somewhere new for a cleaner break from the movies? BACK TO NEW ZEALAND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4815162342 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 1 hour ago, DeeCee said: I’d go with 6 seasons of 8-10 episodes. Another question. Do you go back to New Zealand or go somewhere new for a cleaner break from the movies? 1 hour ago, aabattery said: BACK TO NEW ZEALAND I think there's a pretty sizable island to the west with quite a few biomes that could be explored 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 1 hour ago, 4815162342 said: I think there's a pretty sizable island to the west with quite a few biomes that could be explored Lord of the Rings in Madagascar confirmed 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
75Live Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I'm down for this. They can actually do more than all the different movie adaptions (since there are more than the Jackson trilogy) if they do it right. They can do an actual faithful adaption. Now will they do that is a different question Not that Jackson's take was bad, mind you. I really like those movies. but i'm on board for now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 (edited) On 11/4/2017 at 6:21 PM, Daxtreme said: I don't know how I feel about this. The LOTR trilogy is my favorite movie series of all-time, and adapting that story to TV... I'm not sure it can be done, at least faithfully? Whatever I guess, it can't diminish the original adaptation for me anyway so, I'll check it out if/when it comes out. There is a LOT in the novel that the films had to leave out for lack of time. I am normally very skeptical of remakes, but I can see the reasons for a mini series. I liked the films a lot also, but if you are an admirer of the books they are far from flawless. You really have to read the novel to know where I am coming from. I hope the miniseries would drop a couple of the "Hollywood" things that IMHO flawed the films,like the emphasis on action scenes. You have a more leisruly pace with a TV series, and would not have the "We need a big action scene every half hour" routine that did not help the films. Make it more character driven, less action driven. Overall I liked the films quite a bit, but I did think at times they slipped into action movie mode,which is not faithful to the novel. I say novel because is LOTR is a single novel.The only reason it was brough out in parts is because it was the only economically feasible way for the books to be brought out in the mid 1950's. Tolkien always disliked people calling it a Trilogy, since he wrote it as a single story, and bringing it out in three parts was for strictly business.not artistic reasons. Edited November 7, 2017 by dudalb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Question is also one of budget. It it finiancally feasible to give a TV version the kind of funding it would take to do it properly? Bezos might love the books,but he is still accountable to the Amazon stockholders and can't just spend huge amounts . He has to do "due diligence" and show it would be a wise project for Amazon to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShouldIBeHere Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 (edited) A Silmarillion TV series would be amazing... LotR... sceptical. But I will watch it anyway I could see a six season treatment, orientating itself at Tolkien's six-book structure: 1. The Ring sets out 2. The Ring goes South 3. The Treason of Isengard 4. The Ring goes East 5. The War of the Ring 6. The End of the Third Age. As 3/4 and 5/6 happen simultaneously (for the most part) one would have to restructure those. I think having the two storylines completely separated would be really hard. Problem is that especially everything after leaving Amon Hen happens in a relatively narrow timeline. So maybe it would be best to stretch the war over a longer timeline... or maybe keep Tolkien's structure (which would surely be a gamble). That's if it only covers the LotR books. If it also wants to cover the Hobbit and the time between the Hobbit and LotR it might be totally different, of course. Showing a different version of the Hobbit would be pretty great... one that keeps the story at its relatively "low-scale" straight-forward level. That could be done in two seasons, with a third season covering stuff such as the hunt for Gollum, the White Council and Dol Guldur etc. The series could therefore really develop from relatively small events into the big War of the Ring over the course of its run. Such a show could also show the Northern theater of the War of the Ring, of course (Battle under the Trees, Battle for Dale, etc.). Edited November 7, 2017 by ShouldIBeHere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxtreme Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 With 2-3 seasons for The Hobbit and the bridge between it and LOTR, and 6 seasons for the actual LOTR books... I think that could be the most ambitious show ever conceived. And also one of the hardest to execute. So many ways, so many things that can go wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShouldIBeHere Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 Right now I do believe that this is more likely to go wrong and not right. But I do believe it could go very right if everything falls into place. In a way the same has been said for projects such as the LotR movies and the GoT series when they started out... so there is hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 On 11/4/2017 at 8:21 PM, Daxtreme said: I don't know how I feel about this. The LOTR trilogy is my favorite movie series of all-time, and adapting that story to TV... I'm not sure it can be done, at least faithfully? Whatever I guess, it can't diminish the original adaptation for me anyway so, I'll check it out if/when it comes out. The LOTR Books can definitely be done faithfully, the movies omit a lot of material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 I am more excited for this than for any movies coming out in the next 10 years... Holy shit! And with this maybe other of Tolkien's works will reach the TV or cinema screen too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShouldIBeHere Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 (edited) Interestingly the TIMES reports that the Tolkien family is involved. At first I just thought that the early articles confused Middle-earth Enterprises with the Tolkien Estate... but now they are explicitly named as being part of the talks. This could just mean that they are involved a bit (PJ tried to get them on board as well back in the 90s and the production was for a while in contact with Chtistopher Tolkien) or that they want to make sure that this will be a - in their view - more truthful version of JRR's work and not as off as some of them consider PJ's movies to be. It could, as much as I doubt it, mean that the family is now ready to talk about rights to Tolkien's other works... which would be an incredible change of heart that I cannot really dare to hope for just yet. Edited November 9, 2017 by ShouldIBeHere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomboom234 Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 This would be really stupid of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 On 11/9/2017 at 11:29 AM, ShouldIBeHere said: Interestingly the TIMES reports that the Tolkien family is involved. At first I just thought that the early articles confused Middle-earth Enterprises with the Tolkien Estate... but now they are explicitly named as being part of the talks. This could just mean that they are involved a bit (PJ tried to get them on board as well back in the 90s and the production was for a while in contact with Chtistopher Tolkien) or that they want to make sure that this will be a - in their view - more truthful version of JRR's work and not as off as some of them consider PJ's movies to be. It could, as much as I doubt it, mean that the family is now ready to talk about rights to Tolkien's other works... which would be an incredible change of heart that I cannot really dare to hope for just yet. I would do anything for a Silmarillion TV series. I love Silmarillion more than I love LOTR. It is, in my opinion, one of the best books ever written. I hope it gets adapted one day, while I am still alive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...