Warner Bros. said Thursday that it will release more films in its The Lord of the Rings franchise, the first of which is still in script development but is planned to be released in 2026.
Warner Bros. said Thursday that it will release more films in its The Lord of the Rings franchise, the first of which is still in script development but is planned to be released in 2026.
Shouldn’t be made.
Why?
In exhibit number one, we have a dogshit billion-dollar fanfiction titled Rings of Power.
In exhibit two, a game that nobody wanted, around events that didn’t happen, with characters nobody cares about, that shouldn’t have been made: Gollum.
Sure, but results in the past give no guarantees about how successful a future endeavour can be.
I’m not trying to take a side here, but just reserving judgement.
I’m not talking about success but quality and respect for the source material. Rings of Power could’ve raked in all the money in the world and made every self-titled critic that wasn’t even alive in 2003 cream their jorts, and it would still be a fucking travesty.
In case it’s not obvious, I have a deep loathing for current year WB.
The farther it gets from the source material, the worse it gets. There is no source material to cover what they want to do here.
While I do agree that Tolkien’s work is exceptional, The Wheel of Time shows us that studios have no problems with fucking up good source material. So it can probably go either way
so what? It will either be terrible or interesting. Either way, we, personally, have nothing to lose from this being made and a lot to win if it’s not terrible.
We have a lot to lose because it’s taking money away from other projects that aren’t likely to suck.
There isn’t a fixed budget somewhere that all these projects are competing for. Whomever is financing this movie is not going to finance whatever projects you’re talking about. However, it might just be that if this is a success and brings a profit and visibility, those other smaller projects will get more funds thrown their way.
Yes they are. They have a finite amount of money and aren’t sitting around for months waiting for the perfect movie to fund.
The type of investors who invest speculatively in the money grab that this move is aren’t the types that invest into heartfelt projects which may or may not bring any money. There’s a reason why the fellowship had a budget of $94 million and an unexpected journey had between $200 and $315 million depending on source.