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The Silmarillion may get a film adaptations after all (www.nme.com)
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Jackson has had discussions about the filming rights with the Tolkien estate and it seems that it could actually happen.

Could be great, could be awful, depending if it would go the LOTR or The Hobbit way.

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[–] 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

He's also putting it out there that he wants to make a second Tintin movie. I suspect it's all just fishing to see if he can get investment or studio interest.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That was a part of why the Hobbit got screwed.

    They were working with Guillermo Del Toro for like two years but didn’t get funding, so Guillermo left. Then Jackson started spinning up the project and got seriously sick, which left the crew to only able to keep practicing fancy camera angles and CGI stuff.

    I was mad about the orcs, but in the hobbit it does describe that orcs and goblins are interchangeable, orc is the hobbit word for goblin. Agog is in the book, but dead for two generations, so I don’t know why they didn’t just keep it to Bolg as the nemesis.

    The elf romance is unforgivable.

    Thor being curt and overly direct is wrong, in the book he speaks for hours without saying anything. Except after he finds Bilbo took the arkenstone, then he’s pretty directly a dick.

    Gandalf dealing with the necromancer really isn’t something for the movie either, as it’s the Hobbit. That would be fine in the silmarilion though. Technically it is in the hobbit but only in passing, as Gandalf tells the elves about it but doesn’t really talk to Bilbo directly.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    It was a rights negotiation that kept tripping them up, as MGM held the Hobbit rights. Eventually they came to an agreement to combine MGM’s rights with the Zaentz rights New Line represented for the Hobbit project. But by then Del Toro decided to move on, and Jackson was told that unless he took over and started shooting immediately, the whole thing would be pulled, and given the painful negotiations between New Line and MGM, it would be unlikely to be revived.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Jackson's pre-LotR movies are pretty good. The Frighteners is a really great movie. I'm not a fan of what he did to LotR at all. The magic (for want of a better word) was lost in favour of being a action movie for popcorn-munching audiences. Far too much was altered or left out and the world of Middle Earth became far too ordinary and realistic. I completely agree with you especially about The Hobbit where the tone is absolutely wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It was always planned to do two Tintins, one directed by Spielberg and produced by Jackson, and another with the roles reversed.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I understood there were two be two more. Anthony Horovitz was hired and actually wrote the sequel, Prisoners of the Sun, in 2010-11 and the final one was to be based on Alpha-Art (not sure if that was scripted). That Jackson is now talking about making movies based on The Silmarillion and is in rights negotitions with the Tolkien estate as well as his various restoration projects is an indication Tintin isn't his focus.

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