New Lord of the Rings movie in the works centered around Tom Bombadil

[ART!]

Colbert is actively campaigning to adapt one of its stories next.

[attempt to insert Colbert "GIVE IT TO ME NOW" gif fails]

 

[Reynard]

IF we have to revisit Middle Earth, and thats a big IF, why not push something like a LOTR version of Rouge One?

That is what The Hunt For Golem is.

 

[Koloth]

Hope it turns out better then the ending for Game of Thrones after G.R.R.M. didn't produce the books for a proper ending. This seems like it could fall into the same trap. A movie set in a Tolkien designed setting but is a story largely not written by Tolkien.

 

[ART!]

To my eye, there's more meat to those chapters of Lord of the Rings that the movie cut than there is the Hunt for Gollum. But there are so many ways this could go wrong. Doing it as an animated movie with the original actors returning to their roles seems the easiest. But it also feels like it would be the least fulfilling. Keeping the original actors in a live-action movie filmed close to 30 years later just wouldn't work. Elijah Wood may still look young, but put him back in Frodo's costume and the years would tell.

It sounds like Frodo will not be a character in this film, and that the other three will be some amount of older than they were at the end of ROTK

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It sounds like Frodo will not be a character in this film, and that the other three will be some amount of older than they were at the end of ROTK

So post-Gray Havens.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It's weird that, outside of James Bond, Doctor Who and Batman, audiences freak out when characters are recast. I don't get it, myself.

When you look at the Bond, Who, and Batman franchises, they're all much older than the MCU, and about 15-30 years older than Star Wars. I think there's a generational divide at work. Dr. Who and Bond began with prior generations, so people today grew up with there already being multiple actors having filled those roles.

It sounds like Frodo will not be a character in this film, and that the other three will be some amount of older than they were at the end of ROTK

Creating a satisfying after-story to Lord of the Rings was something that escaped even Tolkien himself. I can see them using that as a framing plot for recalling past events, but having the three remaining Hobbits go on another adventure that's just cut content from Fellowship of the Ring repurposed to the 4th Age seems a shaky proposition. But then again, they're also making a movie based on a section of the book that takes up a page or two at the most.

 

[roger semerad]

Good lord, Tom Bombadil is the last person you should center a movie around. He was always meant to be a cypher. Yes, the mystery around him is intriguing, and the theories are all interesting, but actually pinning down his story I feel will only diminish him. He's in the story for two reasons, to give a little whimsy before things get really dark and serious, and to show that the world is much larger than what is shown. Sometimes side characters are just meant to be side characters. If they feel the need to do more Middle Earth stories, do some more stuff from the Silmarillon, or grow a pair and do an original story.

 

[MarkB]

It sounds like Frodo will not be a character in this film, and that the other three will be some amount of older than they were at the end of ROTK

The fact that they're adapting the relevant chapters of Fellowship of the Ring as part of it suggests that there will be flashbacks, and those would logically feature Frodo.

 

[Bill Zebub]

If Tolkien had lived we would have discovered that Tom was the Big Bad of the 4th Age.

 

[Zaukrie]

It's weird that, outside of James Bond, Doctor Who and Batman, audiences freak out when characters are recast. I don't get it, myself.

Agreed.
I also don't care if it closely follows the source material. It's a different story.... Even if it's the same story.