The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past will go back to the time of Fellowship of the Ring, and continues a Middle-earth franchise problem.
was the only new movie, well, you have been deceived, for another is being made. In the wildest news to come from the franchise in quite some time, it was revealed thatThe story will pick up 14 years after the end of, but the other Hobbits, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, all remain, and the film will find them looking back on their past.
That will then serve as a framing device to tell a story set duringThe Hunt for Gollum isn’t just a surprising one, but a frustrating one, too. That’s because it essentially doubles down on the same core problem as that movie, which is that it means the franchise remains trapped within the confines of Peter Jackson’s original trilogy. Each film is focused on the main characters from those movies, whose stories were not only perfectly told, but had perfect endings. Do we really need to see the likes of Frodo and Sam again? Hopefully, the movies will do something interesting, but it’s hard to argue for it right now. It also puts it in a difficult spot with casting: presumably,, and given we’re 25 years on from those movies, it would almost certainly mean significant de-aging. While great advancements have been made with that tech, it still rarely avoids at least veering close to the uncanny valley. The other option would be to recast, but that might prove even more divisive was done after that. It returned with Prime Video’s, which has also proved divisive and, again, is still focusing on some of the original trilogy’s core characters. The likes of Galadriel, Gandalf, and Sauron are all crucial to the story, when the timeline could’ve allowed for something very different.was more distant in terms of its characters, but was still a prequel about a core part of the main trilogy , and also didn’t work. Part of this is the studios being held back by rights, since they don’t have access to everything Tolkien wrote . But even with that, there could be better stories that shift the focus onto other parts of Middle-earth, and aren’t so reliant on nostalgia for those first three movies. Right now, it feels similar to where Star Wars has been for most of this decade, constantly relying on fan service rather than doing something that’s fresh (though it is starting to shift beyond that with things likeThis has already led to diminishing returns with LOTR: there are three incredible movies, and then everything else since has disappointed. It’d be amazing for that to be turned around, and there is talent involved in these projects, but it’d be much more exciting if this were something brand-new, rather than going back toReady Or Not 2 Screenwriter Reveals The Condition For A Trilogy & Breaks Down The Biggest Spoilers Get access to exclusive stories on new releases, movies, shows, comics, anime, games and more!
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