Warner Bros. said Thursday that it will release more films in its The Lord of the Rings franchise, the first of which is still in script development but is planned to be released in 2026.
Why do they assume we are all huge fans of Gollum? Like that dogshit videogame from last year wasn’t enough
Shouldn’t be made.
Why?
In exhibit number one, we have a dogshit billion-dollar fanfiction titled Rings of Power.
In exhibit two, a game that nobody wanted, around events that didn’t happen, with characters nobody cares about, that shouldn’t have been made: Gollum.
Goddamn. I read this a few days ago elsewhere and seriously thought it was a parody.
WB is going to do to this franchise what it has done to the Harry Potter and the DC (well DC had a couple decent ones) and take what was good and run it straight into the ground.
Had they said they were going to do the Silmarillion or the like I might had been excited but nope just more bullshit.
Literally who is their target for these things? They could ask he fandom and get a ranked list of 100 ideas that would make better games and movies.
You know what no one has thought? “Let’s just watch the opening of Two Towers where they’re scrambling through rocks”. No one wants to just watch (or play) gollum. Give us Gondor, big fights, deep lore, ffs.
in its The Lord of the Rings franchise
Imagine being that callous. I will never consider anything WB does with it to be anything other than fanfiction desperate for attention. The Tolkiens’ work is finite and absolute.
I really enjoyed the first 3 movies, couldn’t get behind The Hobbit at all. I don’t have high hopes for this.
Hobbits were fun mid-tier movies, if you don’t bring in your expectations from lotr
The real title is The Hunt for Red Gollum.
