Could (Should) the Simarillion become a film?

[Jjudvven]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I think to make the Sil into a movie you would have to do a lot of improvising as far as dialogue. Most of the Sil is narraration and not dialogue. We know that Tolkien fans seem to hate that, judging by what people say about improvising in LOTR by PJ.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I agree. I think that, although if done correctly, the Sil could make an excellent movie or TV series, it would be too diffictult to write and acceptable scipt for it. Some people would be pleased, many people would be offended, because there is no way to do it like it is in the book. There's just not enough dialogue in there. You'd have to improvise way too much in order to flesh it out enough. Another way you could do it would be in a documentary form, with a narrator. Although I fear that would be far to boring for most people. <P>It would also be nice to take certain stories that the Sil goes into great detail about, such as the tale of Beren and Luthien, and turning that into a 2 hr theatrical production. It would make a good love story, with a good amount of action for action fans, but it would take a very good director.<P>There are other stories in there that could be interesting, as was suggested above about Galadriel. Feanor would also make an interesting movie. <P>Sadly, I don't think any of this will happen for a long time, so we'll just have to be content with the books.