Movie remakes?

[Knight of Gondor]

I was discussing this idea with my brother and sister over some pizza this evening. My brother commented that the youngsters (teens, probably, mostly) that are being wowed by Lord of the Rings on the big screen are invididually jotting down ideas for how they would improve on Jackson's adaptation. More accurate book-to-movie translations, more accurate-looking characters, whatever. We all agreed that even with the advent of newer special effects, none could match up our beloved trilogy.

Do you think they would try to remake Lord of the Rings twenty, thirty years down the road? Do you think they could improve it at all? In my opinion, even if they did, they would concentrate solely on special effects to make it look better -- losing all of the emotional feeling that worked so well for New Line's version.

What would you want to "one-up" on, if you were involved?

[Morsul the Dark]

they could make it more accurate to the book
however PJ was right to think it hard to keep an audience that is new to the trilogy interested
then again I read the trilogy after i saw the first movie so i would never had experienced the book had i not seen the movie so maybe there would be a larger audience

but i did like the casting for the trilogy

[The Saucepan Man]

Well, when I first saw the Bakshi film at the cinema (over 20 years ago), we thought that it was just about as close as film would ever get to visualising Middle-earth. How wrong we were!

Then again, it's difficult to imagine how it could be brought to life better on screen than it has been in Jackson's trilogy.

Erm, perhaps they could get the Wargs better next time ...

[Morsul the Dark]

i thought the wargs were rather well done Edit: I had trouble imaging orcs on wolves when I read the hobbit (I did read that before seeing the trilogy)End edit.

a few problems remain such as sam looking into the mirror of galadriel and expanding the part of the ents (the entds and sam being my favorite charactors.)

[Encaitare]

They definitely could expand upon it, but why redo something that's, for what it is, perfection? Sure, I would love to see the Scouring of the Shire and Tom Bombadil and a million other things, but I think the movies are gold and any attempt to redo them would be brilliant cinematically but somehow... I don't know how exactly to say it... old? Already done? Overused? As great as the movies are, I just don't think there's a need to redo them. Which is not to say that I wouldn't see the "updated" versions.

[The Only Real Estel]

I wouldn't be suprised, Knight, if there was a remake 30, 40 years down the road. A series as successful as LotR will mostly likely have plenty of interest in a remake, but whoever does it needs to make sure not to key on special effects. Obviously, they're going to be a lot better that far down the road, but I hope that acting in general will not have lost its believability (when it has that now) by then. As long as it hasn't, I plan to act in the next remake .

[Morsul the Dark]

As long as you leave one of the ents for me to act out especially treebeard

[radagastly]

As much as I'd like to see Tom, Old Man Willow, Goldberry and the Barrow Wight, it seems inevitable they will be skipped for the sake of momentum in the story.

I would like to see Frodo portrayed more courageously the way he is in the book. The movie made him kind of wimpy by comparison. I would like to see Sauron with a body--nine fingers and all, rather than some toy eyeball night-light (or better yet, not see him at all, like in the book--much more menacing that way.) I would like to see Eru's chosen representative on Middle-earth NOT club the leader of the free world into unconsciousness in front of his own private guards.

I would actually like to see more restraint with the special effects. Some of them were over the top for my taste and took away from the more personal aspects of the story.

Still, it would be hard to improve on the casting, or the art direction, or the music, all of which were exceptional. Of course, that hasn't stopped remakes in the past, and it won't stop this.

I have no doubt this will be re-done twenty or thirty years from now, if someone is so inclined.

[Saraphim]

Within twenty or thirty years, we'll most likely see a remake. That's the usual pattern movies have started taking these days.

Hopefully, by then I'll have gotten to make my dream into a reality; a movie of the Silmarillion.

[Lathriel]

If they made a remake the director would have a really tough job to match with PJ's achievement.

Also because I think that if the designs were too similar to PJ's version the movie wouldn't be interesting. The director would have to be very original since a lot of people see LOTR the way PJ sees it.

I think a remake would be interesting.

[Morsul the Dark]

movie was great well written and everything just more scenes could be added

Sam looking in the mirror scouring of the shire and expand on Frodo's plan to sell Bag End and indicate the 19 year difference these arent ultimately important but i think they are important enough

[Encaitare]

::gets big puppy-dog eyes::

Ooh, Saraphim, you MUST make a Silmarillion movie, just to make us all very very happy! I was actually wondering the other day if anyone ever would do it... but it would be truly awesome.