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On one hand: Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies are pretty damn-near perfect and it seems like we would never need another adaptation of the story
On the other hand: I think future generations deserve to feel how we felt when those movies came out
PJacks' movies will always be there for us
But in like 10-15 years if someone wants to give a new generation what we had?
We should not only let them, we should applaud them
@coriander basically i think enough time has to pass for them not to try to cash in on references to the originals, and also they need to secure the rights to the silmarillion and related writings so they can focus more on elements the originals couldn't
@coriander like we got a great lord of the rings about the love story between aragorn and arwen but like. you could make a lord of the rings about something else
@coriander idk if you ever watched Red Cliff (you should, but only the two-part international version; let me know if you need help getting a copy), but it's basically a 4.5 hour film based on what are basically a couple chapters out of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and it's great
and like, you could totally do that with lord of the rings. you could easily do two or three movies just on the siege of gondor. but honestly i don't think we will get that until lotr is public domain just because i don't think enough people know or care what the siege of gondor IS for them to fill a movie theatre with it
(same argument goes for star wars, tbh, but i actually COULD see them doing a star wars military drama just about the battle of hoth)
@Lady Honestly some of the Star Wars TV shows are getting pretty close to military dramas, I could see them doing something like that in the future
Also yeah I do still really need to see Red Cliff
@Lady Yeah, there's so much room for so many other aspects to bring in to a film adaptation