The Lord of the Rings back to the screens
The Lord of the Rings universe returned to screens last year with series The rings of power brought to you by Prime Video. A long-standing production, which began after the 2021 acquisition of MGM by Amazon for a good 8.45 billion dollars. Thanks to this, the specialized department can develop important licenses such as James Bond, rocky and so The Lord of the Rings. Well, it’s not that simple. Why MediaWarnerthrough its subsidiary New Line Cinema, it produced the peter jackson trilogy released in 2001, 2002 and 2003. The studio still owns the rights to the films (we will come back to this) and therefore Amazon cannot use any the work of JRR Tolkien as he pleases.
To remind us of this “small” detail, David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, said last November that Warner still intended to do it produce movies The Lord of the Rings. A desire that today is becoming more and more precise, again thanks to David Zaslav (via variety).
This is confirmed for new films
Indeed, the CEO confirmed that the new heads of the studio, Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, have “brokered a deal to make several films based on JRR Tolkien’s booksA deal that was made with Embracer Group who bought on August 18, 2022 Middle-earth Enterprises which owns global rights for derivative products e film adaptations of Tolkien’s two works: The Lord of the Rings AND The Hobbit.
In a press release, the CEO of Freemode (a division of Embracer Group) said he was happy with this agreement and to be able to report, in collaboration with New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Images,”the incomparable world of JRR Tolkien on the big screen, in new and exciting ways“.
At the moment, however, no director has been announced variety specifies that Peter Jackson and his two co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens should be involved and follow every phase of these projects. However, it will be as difficult to follow the director as the trilogy The Lord of the Rings marked the spirits. Warner also dares because, even if the approach is not original (Hollywood loves to produce remakes and reboots), inevitably there will be a great expectation from an audience still attached to Jackson’s films. It’s also unclear whether these films will offer any real variation in storytelling to avoid a sense of repetition. Clearly, a puzzle project but one that will need to be followed carefully.
Source: Cine Serie
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