Anyone plan on watching the Amazon series? I was excited at first but considering the time we live in I’m wary. I have to read the rest of the Trilogy and I found the Simillarion for 1.50. I heard the show will adapt the Simillarion. I was excited about the Wheel of Time series till I heard that the idiot director has more interest in women points than adapting the story. I’m on book 11 of that series.
So is anyone giving LOTR a chance?
Nope. We had 3 decent movies, and we still have the books.
The forthcoming series will be poorly written garbage, wearing Tolkien's skin to give it the veneer of legitimacy.
Why do they even bother adapting older books or movies. They have zero desire of being faithful to the source material. I’m a life long comic book collector and I recently found some reprints of the Eternals comic books. I wanted to read them since I highly doubt Disney/Marvel will be showing Kirby’s vision
Because occasionally you get something like Barry Lyndon, the Jeremy Brett Adventures of Sherlock Holmes TV series, or the George C. Scott A Christmas Carol.
Particularly Sherlock Holmes: I had been a fan of that series for years before I read the original short stories and was amazed at how much of the plot and details were specific to the show because of how seamless it all was.
Unfortunately all of these were made in a time where people actually valued the source material, instead of forcing their own viewpoints and substandard writing into them.
Jeremy Brett is the best Holmes by a mile.
Good points. I loved all the ones you mentioned. My mom was a huge murder mystery fan so I was exposed to Sherlock Holmes at a young age.
Agreed! Brett's Sherlock Holmes was divine!
Because they think stories work by homeopathy. It gives them a basic, proven world and story, without the hassle of making their own, that they think they can fuck with. Said fucking is also usually done with an air of asserting ownership, and signalling a virtue, either corporate trendiness (LotR as GOT) or political correctness (gender and race bending).
In other words, I don't think they can see the damage they cause, because the endeavour is to distort the source material for their own purposes.
Because those franchises already have an audience who will turn up, no matter what you these studios put out.
One of the LOTR TV Show's writers: https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1603861634041.png