The story that has appealed to a massive international audience for nearly a century needs to appeal to a massive international audience....so stay true to the author and you'll make billions.
There are plenty of writers like that out there. They just are not mainstream or supported by the system. It's like looking at the state of modern art and lamenting there are no artists left like the old masters. There are plenty of classical artists of enormous talent out there but the system favors shit artists that are well connected and tow the line instead.
Your process isn't actually all that difficult. One of my favorite game IPs made a language, then cultures, the whole Tolkien process. Rrha paks erra chys hymmnos mea.
But... It's not Tolkien. It's great. It's not him. If you asked Picasso to emulate the brushstrokes of Raphael, he probably could... But when creating an original work, that's not what he does. And if he were told to, you'd be able to tell that it was someone not Raphael who did it. It's not just a matter of skills, it's also a matter of personal style and taste.
Tolkien did not play aloof god and just make a world and watch it, his style was one of hyper-observation. He would spend two pages describing a cellar door. He would stop all flow of action, narration, and plot, in order to have several chapters dedicated to minor politicking.
The way he wrote, would fail as a movie or show. 100%. It just can't translate. But we still got some awesome movies out of it. But the crux of the issue on the new material will be this: Can the writers respect an Old White Man (tm)'s work and world, while building within it the aspects that made people respect and love it?
What they need isn't formal authors or woke politicians. Ironically, what they need is Fanfiction specialists. But they're not going to realize that.
Boy I wonder how recent massive fantasy epics have done when they shift from being directly adapted from the material to going off brand. On an unrelated note, remember how poorly recieved the Hobbit movieS and the last GoT season was.
The story that has appealed to a massive international audience for nearly a century needs to appeal to a massive international audience....so stay true to the author and you'll make billions.
There are plenty of writers like that out there. They just are not mainstream or supported by the system. It's like looking at the state of modern art and lamenting there are no artists left like the old masters. There are plenty of classical artists of enormous talent out there but the system favors shit artists that are well connected and tow the line instead.
Your process isn't actually all that difficult. One of my favorite game IPs made a language, then cultures, the whole Tolkien process. Rrha paks erra chys hymmnos mea.
But... It's not Tolkien. It's great. It's not him. If you asked Picasso to emulate the brushstrokes of Raphael, he probably could... But when creating an original work, that's not what he does. And if he were told to, you'd be able to tell that it was someone not Raphael who did it. It's not just a matter of skills, it's also a matter of personal style and taste.
Tolkien did not play aloof god and just make a world and watch it, his style was one of hyper-observation. He would spend two pages describing a cellar door. He would stop all flow of action, narration, and plot, in order to have several chapters dedicated to minor politicking.
The way he wrote, would fail as a movie or show. 100%. It just can't translate. But we still got some awesome movies out of it. But the crux of the issue on the new material will be this: Can the writers respect an Old White Man (tm)'s work and world, while building within it the aspects that made people respect and love it?
What they need isn't formal authors or woke politicians. Ironically, what they need is Fanfiction specialists. But they're not going to realize that.
Boy I wonder how recent massive fantasy epics have done when they shift from being directly adapted from the material to going off brand. On an unrelated note, remember how poorly recieved the Hobbit movieS and the last GoT season was.
Nope! Black lesbian elves incoming
All the elf people will be black because black jealousy of white people is all that matters.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did a “subversion” and made the orcs all pale and the heroes all black. Really hammer it in.