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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rlbell @ Aug 17 2007, 04:18 AM) [snapback]305001[/snapback]
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The best thing about Jackson's trilogy is that it paves the way for someone else to come around, at a later date, and do it right.[/b]
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I'd like that to be true, but dunno. The Academy suckers acclaimed it not only as the peak of a derided genre (adventure), but also as a gorgeous movie in its own merits. When it's nothing but more of that stinky John Woo discotheque violence which may be okay to gobble pop corn up especially if you're 13 years old but simply doesn't get along with Tolkien's epics. Yes Tolkien's story is there but only to be raped instead of adapted and in an extremely boring way into the bargain. Plus nowadays actors grossly overact when the movie's setting is not contemporary. Conan the Barbarian was way better as an adventure movie, better script, better directed, better movie, I bet the filming crew had better catering even. (However I'm fairly convinced that Conan's sequels are on the other hand complete crap even though I've seen like two minutes of one of them.)
Another LOTR movie can always be done but it's not in the Ideas pile of anyone's desk and no-one in Hollywood will want to compete in the short term with the handfull of Academy awards Jackson got directing as a spam bot.
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Really good stories get made more than once. How many times has Dickens' A Christmas Carol been made into a movie? I can think of three versions, two of which nearly have the same script (A Christmas Carol, starring Alistair Sim, and A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott), and I am ignoring films that change the setting (An American Carol starring Henry Winkler, and Scrooged starring Bill Murray).
Shakespeare is also good for repeated filming; although, the staging variations can make two adaptations of the same play nearly totally dissimilar (Paul Mazursky's Tempest and Forbidden Planet).
Hollywood has the annoying habit of stuffing the best, or most lucrative, films down a hole which is really a pipe. After enough films are pushed in, they start popping out the other end, and get remade. It may take years, but LOTR will also pop and be redone.
If we are really lucky, the BBC will do a low budget miniseries that will need to make up in scripting and acting what it cannot afford to do with CGI.