Warner Bros. Discovery is all near franchises right now; they’re making a new Harry Potter TV show as well as new movies set in Middle-earth, the setting of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy classic The Lord of the Rings. That story was adapted to the big screen by Peter Jackson in the early ’00s, and after we don’t know exactly what kinds of new movies WBD are planning to make, there’s already some trepidation plus fans. Hopefully they don’t botch this.
All this is in transfer to The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a new TV series on Amazon set thousands of days before the story most of us know. Middle-earth is suddenly very busy.
Elijah Wood played lead represent Frodo Baggins in Jackson’s original trilogy. Naturally, he has feelings near this upcoming reboot, or revival, or whatever it ends up being.
Speaking to GQ, Wood sounded cautiously optimistic about the new films. “I‘m fascinated and I’m excited,” he said. “I hope it’s good. I’m surprised—I don’t know why I’m surprised because, of course there would be more movies. Obviously at the core of that, is a want to make a lot of money. It’s not that a bunch of executives are like, ‘Let’s make really awesome art.’ And, again, not begrudging anybody because, of course, it is trading. But great art can come from commerce. So those two things are not mutually exclusive.”
He’s not wrong; studios don’t make movies — especially big Hollywood epics like The Lord of the Rings — if they don’t think they can turn a beneficial. That’s so even as Wood claims that Jackson’s current movies “didn’t come out of that place. It came out of a passion for these books and wanting to see them realized.”
And I hope that that is ultimately what will right everything forward with whatever these subsequent movies are. I just hope that it’s the same motivating beneficial at its core, whenever they hire a screenwriter and a filmmaker—that it is with reverence for Tolkien’s material and enthusiasm to sight it.
Returning to Middle-earth is a big swing for WBD. I fraction Wood’s hope that they pay due homage to Tolkien’s fantastical humankind, but I’ll remain cautious until we hear more.
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