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Zaslav Announces New LOTR Movie: "The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum" (www.msn.com)
posted 2 years ago by LastRights 2 years ago by LastRights +25 / -0
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– LastRights [S] 23 points 2 years ago +23 / -0

In the Hobbit trilogy we had black people at Lake Town and a ridiculous fem-fu elf acting out Biden's interracial love routine (Elf-Dwarf love). Not to mention the 'gravity-defying' stunts and other physics 101 failures. Peter Jackson may not have the right 'Tolkien'esque' sensibilities after all.

And don't forget, that ridiculous one-armed Orc was his doing as well.

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– Vivs3rdSock 23 points 2 years ago +23 / -0

Peter Jackson may not have the right 'Tolkien'esque' sensibilities after all.

Del Toro was directing The Hobbit to begin with, Jackson had to take over after 18 months of work had already lapsed.

Jackson had said that del Toro's sudden exit created problems as he felt he had a very little preparation time remaining before shooting had to begin, with unfinished scripts and without storyboards, which increased the difficulty to direct it. Jackson stated, "Because Guillermo del Toro had to leave and I jumped in and took over, we didn't wind the clock back a year and a half and give me a year and a half prep to design the movie, which was different to what he was doing. It was impossible, and as a result of it being impossible I just started shooting the movie with most of it not prepped at all. You're going on to a set and you're winging it, you've got these massively complicated scenes, no storyboards and you're making it up there and then on the spot."

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– LastRights [S] 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0

That explains the first movie but how do you explain the second and third? ;)

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 14 points 2 years ago +14 / -0

They were filmed at the same time and released at different times. If they needed set work they filmed all of the scenes in that set for all the movies, ECT. It's not as easy to get out of that quagmire as it seems.

All that said, I got really tired of the Dwarves = Scots joke. When Billy Connolly showed up I wondered if Craig Ferguson just wasn't available at the time. It was obvious they wanted a lighter movie than LotR but didn't take the time to figure it all out before filming.

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– SendTomBoys 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

For someone who thinks they know a lot about the franchise it's funny that you don't even know how they filmed the movies.

Both trilogies were filmed back to back over about 18 months.

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– LastRights [S] 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Who would even want to know about the fraught development process of The Hobbit trilogy after the absolute disappointment that it was. Not only that, but it's been years and it would appear that it was Jackson's decision to add a third film, to what was originally a two-parter.

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– -Fender- 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

For the Lord of the Rings movies, they filmed most of it back-to-back, and then took a year editing what they had between movies. I expect that the Hobbit movies followed the same trend, with everything being filmed at once.

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– Galean 22 points 2 years ago +22 / -0

Many things wrong with that movie. Worse was that I felt no tension, had some funny parts but it felt more like a marvel movie with dwarfs and hobbits then LotR

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– LastRights [S] 14 points 2 years ago +14 / -0

It was like watching someone else badly playing a shitty game on Youtube. Needed a lot more commentary to make it interesting.

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– Knife-TotingRat 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

It begs for the MST3K treatment.

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– Cyberguy64 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

There's a fun idea.

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– deleted 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0
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– CaptainSassyPants 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

Not just black, but asians as well. And the camera pans to them and lingers as if to show the audience "look, POCs! See, we aren't racist!" after an indian woman who tried to play a hobbit got told that she didn't fit the bill so she went to the media and made a stink. It was the beginning of this rot that has set in since.

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– Galean 14 points 2 years ago +14 / -0

Why are you posting a msn link? https://archive.is/IgMEP

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– LastRights [S] 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

Captcha hell.

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– FrozeInFear 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

How I wish dot today worked for everyone. We really need a good alternate archive site besides dot org.
Edit: Here's a dot org copy

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– YouAreAPirate 11 points 2 years ago +11 / -0

ENOUGH JESUS FUCK

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– Bottle_of_Memes 10 points 2 years ago +10 / -0

The hunt for more money

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– Assassin47 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

MERCHANDISING!

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– RoulerBleu 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

''My presheckelious.''

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– I_Bent_My_Wookiee 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

Ahhh those halcyon days when there was only one Gollum in the world.
Nowadays you can't go outside without stepping on one Gollum or another.
And they've modernized themselves in odd ways.
Overweight.
Unusual hair growth featuring bizarre colors.
Raspy voices raised in jarring and disjointed shrieks...
Al least we can rest assured that the modern-day Gollums will see themselves represented on TV.

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

Best enjoy this movie while you still can

https://youtu.be/DVZg3S24srM?si=ucy04CccBfUjpmk8

The fan made film was released nearly a decade ago.

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– alucard13mmfmj 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

If orcs are seen as black people by leftist.. surely we will see female blonde elves throwing themselves to the orcs to be gang banged. And goblins being seen as jewish people.. they would be lusting after the elves too.

Lawl.

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– Norenia 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Lord of the Rings: Gollum is getting a film adaptation?

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– botzwanapunani 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Its so strange that this is another media featuring smeagol, recently we had that weird gollum game that flopped hard. I get that the character has a tragic backstory but come on there are far more interesting characters in the setting. Unless gollum reminds them of themselves so they feel he needs to be featured more?

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– Knife-TotingRat 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

He was a victim of the Ring, that's it. The Ring was just part of Sauron's larger evil, which victimized a lot of people.

And the murder of his cousin probably wasn't all the Ring's doing. The thing just finds whatever foothold in the soul that it can.

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– ParadoxSepi 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Why fkn make another LoTR movie about one character when there's an entire book of Silmarrilion with dozens of really good stories and ideas...

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– Hellsbells00 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

Reading the silmarillion instead of watching a movie and writing shitty fanfiction would be closer to work.

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– LastRights [S] 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Hollywoke is going up in flames. They're hoping to capitalize on the LOTR brand but Amazon may have irreparably damaged it already.

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– Adamrises 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Because Gollum won them a lot of awards and prestige in the LotR movies. So if they put him in again, they will continue to get prestige and accolades.

Its basic Executive logic.

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– RoulerBleu 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

They started shoving blacks in the movies by the second trilogy ( The Hobbit ).

Not interested.

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