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I'm not sure the ordinary audience will be drawn to that kind of movie, not if they expect an other LotR.
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Unfortunately, exactly that is the dilemma. A CoH or any Silmarillion-based movie is doomed to be about as expensive to produce as one of the LotR films. So, if you don't want to lose money, you have to get the ordinary audience into the cinema.
I think one could do a Númenor-movie, which is more closely related to the LotR, at least in topic, not in atmosphere. The closer link will get enough people into the cinemas to be a success. And if it ends up to be a
real success, making a Silmarillion proper quadrilogy (or so) is not such a risk anymore.
What do you think about the idea to make an animated Silmarillion TV-series? It's not only cheaper, but it also doesn't have to keep itself to the restrictions of a movie. Side stories (The Coming of Men into the West, for example) that wouldn't find a place in movies would find their places on the screen this way.