This could be a very good thing - if they have high production values. There’s so much in the LOTR books that I always thought a series would have been a better way to do it than a trilogy of movies.
They’ll ruin it. Gandalf will be a SJW. Merry will get a sex change. Etc.
I would watch it IF it were true to the text. Otherwise, meh.
Great! The first hollywood original idia in ages. Oh, wait.....never mind.
Honestly, leave the LOTR alone. Jackson did the impossible with the movies, this just shamelessly exploiting the stories for a cash grab.
In don’t trust Harveywood to honor the source material like it was done originally with the movies.
I hope they don’t ruin it.
They’d be better off adapting Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.
The movie series nailed it as far as book adaptations are concerned.
A TV series will just wander far afield in search of tv plots to fill a weekly episode.
First 2 seasons would just be about leaving the Shire. At some point, we’ll be saying toss the ring into the Volcano already.
Not to mention the calls for minority characters to be inclusive, prancing elves, a focus on Sauraman’s dark childhood, tragic characters, etc.
I tried to watch the movie.
It was TOOOOOOOOOOOOO long and too uninteresting.
And it turned out to only be Part 1.
I expect they would ruin it, not enough LGBT content in the books, so the groper in charge will need to start changing things.
I’d love to see the Prince Roger series put on the screen though.
They could do The Silmarillion.
I wish they’d have asked me. David Eddings “The Belgariad” series would be perfect.
Walking, walking, walking.
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Walking, walking, walking.
The superb movies pretty much took care of the cinematic appeal of LOTR.
I would like to see Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series explored book for book. “Master and Commander” is my favorite all-time movie and if Amazon or Netflix or HBO can live up to that lofty standard, I would buy it on BluRay sight unseen.
This is a huge "IF". Christopher Tolkien literally disowned his own son at one point over a dispute over these film rights. Nothing more is likely to be made until Christopher Tolkien passes away. (He's 92 years old)
Why??? You have the movies that were very well done and I see no reason to go back over that ground.
Mind you, I had those same objections prior to Jackson's herculean effort and what we got was a far better realization than I thought possible, so there's that. But even Jackson didn't get it all in. And this being television in these corrupt times you know every crank activist group is going to be clamoring for just that one little change that suits their politics of the moment. I'm not optimistic that the producers and advertisers will be able to resist.
The word is that somehow they don’t have the rights to all the character, which could be a problem.
Remember the geniuses who decided to do a 2016 remake of Ben Hur? That movie was a MASSIVE bomb and it cost over $200 million dollars to make. The 1959 Ben Hur won 11 academy awards, and Chuck Heston was and always will be the only true Ben Hur. There was no way the 2016 version could have improved on the 1959 version.
The Return of the King also won 11 academy awards. Where will the knuckleheads planning a remake find a better Gandalf than Ian McKellan? A better Legolas than Orlando Bloom? A better Samwise Gamgee than Sean Astin? A better Gollum than Andy Serkis? A better director than Peter Jackson?
No LOTR remake PLEASE! Stop the madness.
Great 10 hours of walking.