Stephen Colbert to make new LOTR movie

[herlig9]

So my first reaction to this is.

Why?

I mean i know Peter Jackson sadly screwed up the Hobbit movies. Going from Acceptable to Lame. The only Hobbit visual medium i can recommend, is that 2003 video game released on PC and PS2/Gamecube/Xbox. Though consoles is said to be the best to experience.

But the original LOTR trilogy is... essentially perfect! It went from "Good - Better - Perfect". Why remake something that is already great?

But.. It does baffle me. That would be like having Conan O Brien direct it. Its such a odd choice?

Stephen Colbert to write new Lord of the Rings film after talk show ends

Colbert, who is a Tolkien superfan, will adapt an early section of the first Lord of the Rings novel.

www.bbc.com

 

[Frandîr]

For me is all about optics. I see it like this:

Stephen Colbert's mediatic reach, coupled with his known love for Tolkien's work is a good combination. In his show, he would always give exposure to the professor's work, be it quoting him, or answering trivias made by his guests. So, he has maintained the professor's work alive in mainstream media. (We might hate or dislike mainstream media, but it is what it is; there will always be a "mainstream"). And I prefer to see Tolkien's work in the mainstream than nowhere at all. It's good that people know and recognize the source and inspiration that helped shaped our faerie stories and the mastermind that inspired the creation of all these the games of thrones and magic bureaucracies of wizard teenagers.

I never hate on any adaptation before I see it. And even if its not faithful, we all have to remember, IT'S AN ADAPTATION, not a documentary of the original work.

 

[herlig9]

For me is all about optics. I see it like this:

Stephen Colbert's mediatic reach, coupled with his known love for Tolkien's work is a good combination. In his show, he would always give exposure to the professor's work, be it quoting him, or answering trivias made by his guests. So, he has maintained the professor's work alive in mainstream media. (We might hate or dislike mainstream media, but it is what it is; there will always be a "mainstream"). And I prefer to see Tolkien's work in the mainstream than nowhere at all. It's good that people know and recognize the source and inspiration that helped shaped our faerie stories and the mastermind that inspired the creation of all these the games of thrones and magic bureaucracies of wizard teenagers.

I never hate on any adaptation before I see it. And even if its not faithful, we all have to remember, IT'S AN ADAPTATION, not a documentary of the original work.

I guess the alternative is. If its bad, i still got the masterpiece to go back to, that Peter Jackson did with LOTR trilogy

 

[Frandîr]

I guess the alternative is. If its bad, i still got the masterpiece to go back to, that Peter Jackson did with LOTR trilogy

And you will always have the books, those will never be taken away from us. Unless some idiot politician fires up the 451 degrees incinerators.

 

[herlig9]

And you will always have the books, those will never be taken away from us. Unless some idiot politician fires up the 451 degrees incinerators.

People who love the works and who are trying to keep it faithfully or in the spirit atleast, in the way the author intended, i have respect for those people.

 

[Deimos]

And you will always have the books, those will never be taken away from us. Unless some idiot politician fires up the 451 degrees incinerators.

You must not have read the Bradbury book.
It is quite clear--Beatty articulates it very precisely-- that the ground work for book burning was laid by citizens.

"Now let's take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico....There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade-journals."

 

[Frandîr]

You must not have read the Bradbury book.
It is quite clear--Beatty articulates it very precisely-- that the ground work for book burning was laid by citizens.

"Now let's take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico....There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade-journals."

You have a point, though I shall validate my words.

Yes, beyond the citizens' will and groundwork, it is the politicians who create the laws and put them in effect; obviously with the aid and approval of citizens. I accept your point, but hold on to mine.

...and I love Bradbury's novel...and the movie from 1961, and the one form 2018.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

But the original LOTR trilogy is... essentially perfect! It went from "Good - Better - Perfect". Why remake something that is already great?

As the article you linked stated, it will apparently not so much be a "remake", as a "filling-in" of parts of the story skipped in the original film.

And to paraphrase one of my comments in the other thread, "perfect and "great" are subjective judgements. 😉

Oh, by the way: I'm curious as to why you started a thread on this, when there's already a current one:

Shadow of the Past movie

Why did they have to announce it on the same day that Frodo destroyed the Ring? 😭 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt41070763/

thetolkien.forum

 

[herlig9]

As the article you linked stated, it will apparently not do much be a "remake", as a "filling-in" of parts of the story skipped in the original film.

And to paraphrase one of my comments in the other thread, "perfect and "great" are subjective judgements. 😉

Oh, by the way: I'm curious as to why you started a thread on this, when there's already a current one:

Shadow of the Past movie

Why did they have to announce it on the same day that Frodo destroyed the Ring? 😭 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt41070763/

thetolkien.forum

Oh Tom Bombadil ^^

 

[herlig9]

Btw. Its approved by Peter Jackson aswell so. Nevertheless. I will watch it. Gonna be interesting!

 

[d4rk3lf]

It's fascinating how Hollywood manage to find stories within 1 or 2 Tolkien sentences.

Yeah... let's skip Angmar wars, and let's make a movie on how Aragon's grandafther's uncle found beautiful fields of mushrooms.