This movie does not need to exist.
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Wait, this isnt a shit post? Its an actual movie?
yep. It's based on a boring, but relatively well made fan film from 2009 where Aragorn runs around in Middle Earth and is angsty. I have watched it and I appreciate the passion from the fans who made it, but there is no way I would ever think this movie/idea had enough flesh on the bone to make a feature length film. The fan film is like 40 minutes long, and it is so slow and dull, that I genuinely cannot remember what happens in it.
I'm very impressed that this movie is still moving forward even though the Gollum game crashing and burning in development made it clear nobody wants a story centered around him.
That game did not fail because people dislike gollum as a character.
The problem with the gollum game was that they got a studio famed for indie point and click adventure games to make a 3d aaa action/adventure game. Daedelus are a fine studio, but would be far far far from my consideration for such a game
It's a very nice still. Hopefully the whole movie is pretty like this.
Image isn't loading in my app (summit), browser on both phone and computer, both via the lemmy link and the image url.
Thanks but no thanks.
There are so many great fantasy stories out there, that haven't been adapted yet. Do them. Stop regurgitating the same three franchises over and over again. We don't need anymore Lord of the Rings. We don't need anymore Harry Potter and we most certainly do not need any more Game of Thrones - and this comes from someone who thought Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was okay and enjoyable.
Move on.
Does anyone know if it has to do anything with the free fan free fan film ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9H09xnhlCQU ) or is it just based on the same story?
Yes, it is literally based on the fan film. There was some shenanigans going on shortly after it was announced that Andy Serkis would make a professional adaptation of the film and the studio struck down the original film and channel on youtube for copyright infringement, but they were luckily able to plead their case and the movie is back up.
I forget when this was going on exactly, just that I was a spectator in real time while the drama was happening.

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