news Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut

Can't wait for a trilogy of Andy Serkis to kill his friend for the Ring in the first 30 minutes then immediately cuts to the next 10 hours over the trilogy (22 total in the extended versions) of him just hiding out in a cave for 500 years gradually becoming the little freak we all know until Bilbo shows up

Given The Hobbit trilogy, I hope he goes back to some of the basics of filmography that he did with the LoTR. Those three films have held up remarkably well and much better than the effects in The Hobbit.

I can only hope he follows source material better since they have more of the rights I assume. I didn't mind the changes he did for for the original trilogies since the changes made narrative sense and kept it entertaining in ways that keeping to the original books wouldn't.

I've not been able to get into Rings of Power. Narratively it is just...a bit over the place.

quote Bruce

The Hobbit was 1 book, hbn .... Vs The Lord of the Rings being usually in 3 volumes, each about 3 times the length That'd have a lot to do with it, IMO.

And yet he still got them to three films each

But my point is with the narrative of the LoTR, you can't put a 80 year time jump into a film narrative like that, nor can you keep audience engagement with riddles and songs with Tom Bombadil, etc,

My point with LoTR holding up better than The Hobbit is the special effects. Makeup for example has done better than CGI.

What I always found baffling was that if you watch all the behind the scenes stuff on the LOTR extended editions, they talked in depth about all the mistakes they nearly made, and how they learned from them...and then they went and made them all anyway ten times over with The Hobbit films...

I don't even count the Rings Of Power show as my understanding is that they don't actually have the rights to anything other than the names, so it's basically just fan fiction on a bigger budget...

quote yugiohcardplayer

They were inspired by the new game Gollum to this... Hopefully it's as good.

In what world was that game good....?

As 'good' as a game that got mostly negative reviews from critics & didn't seem to do much better with players....? It might have an advantage inasmuch as the film won't have any gameplay issues