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It does make me fearful that if the two proposed movies make a billion or so for New Line, Peter Jackson's The Silmarillion won't be too far behind.
On the director/writers commentary for FotR, Phillipa Boyens says that the sound guys got Fran Walsh to scream for the Ringwraith sound cue they needed by telling her that PJ got the rights to the Silmarillion. Fran's retort was that it was seven years of working on the trilogy that did it.
Does anyone know which Tintin stories Spielberg and Jackson are adapting?
Or interesting.
agrees and does not run away! Or, maybe it's an interesting story but the writing was so bad it was hard to tell. I loved the LoTR movies but can not make it past the first couple of chapters of the first book so I'm optimistic that the Hobbit movie will also be enjoyable for me.
lisah, the LotR books get a lot better after the first half of the first book. It's a stumbling block for a lot of people. It took me several tries.
What's the problem with that?
That out of approximately 50 million pages, only the ones dealing with Beren & Lúthien and Morgoth's struggle against Ungoliant held the slightest interest for me.
That out of approximately 50 million pages, only the ones dealing with Beren & Lúthien and Morgoth's struggle against Ungoliant held the slightest interest for me.
Seeing his movies only feels mandatory. It's actually completely optional.
We watched Grey Gardens last night. It felt really exploitative. There's definitely a fascinating story to be told about how these two gorgeous, wealthy, connected women turned into old crazies living in a dilapidated, filthy house but seeing them actually living that way felt really wrong. I feel dirty to have watched it.
I've always thought of The Hobbit as Lord of the Rings for kids.
I had managed to miss that film entirely, and looking at the cast I'm not sure how. I feel uncomfortably intrigued.
I was confused by your post, ita, so I IMDBed and see that they are making a film of Grey Gardens. I was talking about the 1975 documentary [link] I might like to see the film as I'm totally curious to see how they got where they did.