Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31200097-20171110015355/@comment-32789632-20171112180857

This subject is debatable. My main thoughts are that the characters from Peter Jackson’s films are so familiar and it would be extremely hard to replace those actors in a new TV series. I mean how do you replace Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, and all the others? It just would not be the same with different people. I don’t really know if they will have the rights to Howard Shore’s score for Lotr. I’m guessing they don’t, and this is another issue. That music from Jackson’s films is so great for the story, and if this new tv show used a different score it would just not be the same and I’m sure it wouldn’t be as popular. Also I do agree with the remarks about Hollywood losing creativity. I feel like the main focus of a new tv series would be extravagant battle scenes and maybe even attempts to re-create the Peter Jackson films which would honestly just feel forced. They may miss a lot of the important plots and themes in the story. The books aren’t focused on battles; they are focused on the journey of Frodo and how he and the rest of the Fellowship do good in Middle Earth despite the darkness. I guess I just don’t know how well Hollywood would portray this like Jackson did. I sense that this show would be very violent and focus on the battle scenes which, in my opinion, was not the reason Tolkien wrote his books. But anyway what if we give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they’d do a great job portraying the books. That would be awesome. But the popularity issue remains. Millions all over the world love Peter Jackson’s films and I’m sure it will be hard for those fans to accept or get interested in this new series. If Amazon and Warner Bros do manage to pull this off, they will have to spend a fortune and work very hard getting people to see it. They’ll have to do a good job or nobody will even look into it. And from the way I see it, with Peter Jackson’s films and their global popularity and success, the odds that they would be able to compete seem slim.