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.

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    2 months ago

    I really enjoyed the first 3 movies, couldn’t get behind The Hobbit at all. I don’t have high hopes for this.

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    2 months ago

    The dipshit exec responsible for milking Gollums flacid tits will make more money if they were to be fired than most of us will in a few lifetimes combined.

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    2 months ago

    Why do they assume we are all huge fans of Gollum? Like that dogshit videogame from last year wasn’t enough

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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      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.