NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2805597" data-attributes="member: 3649">If the Tolkien estate grants it, you'll probably wait at least 20-30 years for the remake. If Hollywood hasn't dropped the idea of remakes by then. Of course, by 2028, Hollywood is reeling under the bold new directions of the Indian buyers who purchased most of the studios in 2021. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship does the first two books in one movie, dropping most of the travelling in favor of set peices in The Shire, Bree, Lothlorien, and in Hall of Rohan. Hollywood's new masters, riding high on the first waves of their successes with Gone with the Wind and Titanic II, infuse the Holy Trilogy with a formula that has worked wonders in the largest film-making industry on Earth in 2005 and has only grown since then. I'm talking of course about the big musical number. Lots of them. Like 'Singing in the Rain' only with elves and more leaping water fountains. Aragorn's solo in the second movie is more than 20 minutes long.In 2040, the Tolkien estate succumbs to multiple legal attacks and the new MultiNet digital rights mean that the Trilogy rights enter the public domain. Still, the Trilogy lays fallow for a mere 20 years until it's dusted off for a quickie treatment with an all-CGI cast. Reviews are terrible and taints the property for a good 50 years as it keeps popping up as a Christmas Special. By this time, we've totally eschewed the big production number and a crew of reasonable and level headed Canadians takes the property under it's wing. They labor for almost six years on adapting the trilogy for the combination stage/backdrop that now encompases film making. The retro movement sweeping America means that the Fellowship is filmed in 8 mm with no special effects at all. Aragorn is a normal man in a business suit, a bit of pine straw pinned to his lapel reminding us of the Woods archtype he represents. All players deliver their lines while seated in a semi-circle. The sets make Our Town look like a Busby Berkely production. Finally in 2100, Speilburg's head atop the preserved body of Michael Bay remakes the Trilogy word for word and line by line from Tolkien. The first movie is five hours long and features an all-NuRealityConstruct Tom Bombadil. It bombs because all the fantasy fans starved to death in 2090 when Virtual Reality World of Warcraft X was released.</blockquote>

Verification