...And the Future Holds.....What?

bropous · 05-13-2002, 07:51 PM

Well, there will come a time when we have all seen The Return of the King, Peter Jackson will go on to other projects, but the story will live on. Just what future reincarnations do you see for the works of the Master?

The original Dune was an abomination, the second TV version was better, but STILL off-target. Will there be a remake of the Lord of the Rings in twenty or thirty years?

I imagine someone will take another slash at making an animated film.

But one day, someone will start gathering the resources to revisit Middle-Earth in "real life" filmwork. Could another director take the intricate focus of Peter Jackson and still capture at least 98% of the books?

Who knows how films will be marketed in thirty years. Maybe theaters will be gone by then, everything coming to us via broadband hyperdigital bionetworked wristwatches with a forty-foot holographic projection screen...

But how do you think the next treatment of Lord of the Rings will fare? And will we ever see a film of Hobbit and Silmarillion?

05-13-2002, 07:51 PM	#1
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	...And the Future Holds.....What? Well, there will come a time when we have all seen The Return of the King, Peter Jackson will go on to other projects, but the story will live on. Just what future reincarnations do you see for the works of the Master? The original Dune was an abomination, the second TV version was better, but STILL off-target. Will there be a remake of the Lord of the Rings in twenty or thirty years? I imagine someone will take another slash at making an animated film. But one day, someone will start gathering the resources to revisit Middle-Earth in "real life" filmwork. Could another director take the intricate focus of Peter Jackson and still capture at least 98% of the books? Who knows how films will be marketed in thirty years. Maybe theaters will be gone by then, everything coming to us via broadband hyperdigital bionetworked wristwatches with a forty-foot holographic projection screen... But how do you think the next treatment of Lord of the Rings will fare? And will we ever see a film of Hobbit and Silmarillion? __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.