| I'd assume it's because they want some viewers. |
Lord of the Rings: THE SERIES • Page 2
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StarchildHypocrethes 33,547 posts
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RichDC 9,013 posts
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Registered 16 years agoTonka wrote:
Agreed. There's lots of great books out there that would be really suited to TV. Would love to see adaptations of Robyn Hobbs' Farseer and Liveships trilogies for example.
I think it will awesome, the more fantasy / sci-fi shows the better.
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Why LotR? There are so many fantasy universes to exploit so why re-visit the flogged corpse of Middle Earth? Why not
Earthsea?
Dara?
The Stillness?
Bas-Lag?
Whatever the world in The Wheel of time is called?
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Tonka 31,573 posts
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Registered 17 years agoStarchildHypocrethes wrote:
Well, yes, obviously. At the same time we got new IP like The Walking Dead getting pretty decent ratings and an ever growing trend of fandom.
I'd assume it's because they want some viewers.
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Tonka 31,573 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI just realized that game of thrones would have been an even better example.
The very series this move by Amazon is said to try and emulate is based on a fresh IP.
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Dizzy 3,715 posts
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Registered 19 years agoCould be cool as long as they set it in a different era. -
spamdangled 31,803 posts
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Registered 12 years agoThe riftwar from raymond e feist's books would be great. The Empire trilogy is rife with the sort of political intrigue that makes GOT fans hard. -
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nickthegun 84,617 posts
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Registered 15 years agoWhat's it tracking at? -
Prequel then? Boourns -
nickthegun 84,617 posts
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Registered 15 years agoWell, after the books finish, all the interesting things left in the world get on a bunch of ships to go and die so as much as I hate prequels, it probably makes sense in this case -
I'd rather they remade the main trilogy and did a different take on it. All the main beats would be the same but there's shit loads of ways you could do it. Jackson's was great but shirley someone else could do it differently.
If it's a prequel they should do Breaking Bad but with Sauron, with the ring gradually seducing him the way Walter took to drug dealing. -
StixxUK 8,536 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIsn't someone doing Wheel of Time already? -
Syrette 51,007 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI'm still recovering from the slogfest that was the original movie trilogy. -
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Yeah they could have Sauron cooking a batch of blue Lembas bread and hawking it to the elves. The witch king is Tuco. -
anyjungleinguy 42 posts
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Registered 8 years agoJyzzy-Z wrote:
Eh, that’s not what happened to Sauron.
If it's a prequel they should do Breaking Bad but with Sauron, with the ring gradually seducing him the way Walter took to drug dealing. -
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@anyjungleinguy well I never read the silmarillion because the first dozen pages gave me a seizure. -
Mola_Ram 25,182 posts
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Registered 9 years agoStixxUK wrote:
Apparently yes
Isn't someone doing Wheel of Time already? -
JamboWayOh 22,548 posts
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Registered 8 years agoJyzzy-Z wrote:
Nice. Let's not forget it's quasi sequel, Better Call Sauron.
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Bravo sir. -
neilka 23,744 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAt least one pair of Elven milkers per episode and I'm in. -
Duffking 16,731 posts
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Registered 14 years agoOn the plus side Denis Villeneuve is doing Dune. Again. -
drhickman1983 7,342 posts
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Registered 11 years agoThere's going to be an adaptation of Rothfuss' king killer chronicle. Sort of. It's going to be a prequel.
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Tonka 31,573 posts
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Registered 17 years ago“Sharon and the team at Amazon Studios have exceptional ideas to bring to the screen previously unexplored stories based on JRR Tolkien’s original writings.”
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Tonka 31,573 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDuffking wrote:
WAsn't aware that he'd already made an adaptation of it...
On the plus side Denis Villeneuve is doing Dune. Again.
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Tonka 31,573 posts
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Registered 17 years agoRight, who's the snitch
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/16649934/amazon-studios-fantasy-genre-tv-adaptation -
One_Vurfed_Gwrx 4,173 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI still think it would be nice to see a good interpretation of the Thomas Covenant books. Nicely broke up into two trilogies and a quadrilogy (is that a real word?) and completely finished. Not too many giant battles to budget into it either really. Doubt it is well-known enough though. -
Is that the one where the protagonist rapes a child?
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