Movie News/Discussion Thread 2

[Albert]

I just wish they could come up with new ideas rather than squeeze old ones for every penny.

[Moggy]

What do you mean he's publishing a sequel to the Iliad? What the strawberry float is an Odyssey? Write something new you cheap banana split.

[Cuttooth]

The dominance of sequels at the box office really sucks the life out of cinema though.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

New live action LOTR movie confirmed, LOTR hunt for Gollum.

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Peter Jackson to produce. Hopefully it's decent. No other details other than release in 2026 which seems a bit quick to me so must have been in preproduction for a while.

[Moggy]

I assume Mortensen and McKellen are not going to be in it.

Recasting Aragorn and Gandalf is probably going to be disastrous.

[Imrahil]

Perhaps Nicolas Cage will agree to play Aragorn this time?

[Moggy]

Perhaps Nicolas Cage will agree to play Aragorn this time?

Nah, it's finally time for Stuart Townsend to shine.

[Tomous]

The dominance of sequels at the box office really sucks the life out of cinema though.

I like how the post after this is for a strawberry floating Gollum origin story film

[Moggy]

The dominance of sequels at the box office really sucks the life out of cinema though.

I like how the post after this is for a strawberry floating Gollum origin story film

Going by the film title, this'll be set hundreds of years after Gollum's origin story

[DarkRula]

That's alright. No-one played the game to even know of Gollum's origin story, anyway.

[Alvin Flummux]

Of all the possible Middle Earth stories, this was the one they looked at and said, "make that a movie series"?

Lol okay.

I do wonder how it'll pan out, though. Kinda curious to see how it ends up.

[Moggy]

Of all the possible Middle Earth stories, this was the one they looked at and said, "make that a movie series"?

Lol okay.

I do wonder how it'll pan out, though. Kinda curious to see how it ends up.

I doubt they have access to any of the Silmarillion stories and are limited to The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

They should be making a Bombadil movie

[Godzilla]

[jimbojango]

I’ve just come to the cinema for the first time in a while to see the Transformers 40th Anniversary thing - I make up 25% of the audience. Still, hoping it’s good and I’ll see the real voice of Optimus Prime do his thing.