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Amazon (and Netflix) Pursue a 'Lord of The Rings' TV Series (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes The Verge:
Amazon Studios has been looking for a way to duplicate HBO's success with Game of Thrones, and the company may have found a solution: adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings into a TV series. Variety reports that the company is currently in talks with Warner Bros. Television and the late author's estate, and while discussions are said to be in "very early stages," it is clearly a high priority, with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos himself involved in the negotiations.
Amazon isn't the only one looking into the rights, according to Deadline, which reports that the Tolkien Estate is looking to sell the television rights to the iconic fantasy series to the tune of $200-250 million, and has approached Netflix and HBO as well. There appears to be some strings attached: the rights might not encompass all of the characters in the story. HBO has reportedly passed on the project.
"We can hear the pitch now," jokes The Verge. "It's like Game of Thrones, only with a series of books that are actually finished."
Amazon isn't the only one looking into the rights, according to Deadline, which reports that the Tolkien Estate is looking to sell the television rights to the iconic fantasy series to the tune of $200-250 million, and has approached Netflix and HBO as well. There appears to be some strings attached: the rights might not encompass all of the characters in the story. HBO has reportedly passed on the project.
"We can hear the pitch now," jokes The Verge. "It's like Game of Thrones, only with a series of books that are actually finished."
At the end of the new Lord of the Rings TV series, the hobbits must come up against a danger worse than Sauron.
They must face off against the ghost of JRR Tolkien, whom they end up flogging to death.
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Pretty sure "J. J." initials stand for "Jar Jar".
I find it to be pretty awful, really. Tolkien just prattles on and on and on and on about a bunch of hyperbolic shit. Every location and creature is described in extreme detail only to be outdone by the next that's more fantastical, more evil, more ancient, a taller mountain inside a deeper pit, etc.. And here's a fucking song for no reason. And Hobbit food? It's like the scene in Forest Gump describing different types of shrimp, but it's not funny, nor is it interesting. It's just filler.
Some nerds call this shit "world building". I call it Tolkien loving the smell of his own farts.
As I type this the above post is rated "Troll". That seems remarkably appropriate.
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They need to make a change to the scene in The Hobbit where Legolas is surfing on the barrels. Have him break the fourth wall by musing about how many kids are going to fail their book reports and out themselves as cheaters by reporting on this scene.
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