Ten, and twenty and thirty years on.....

[the guy who be short]

Originally Posted by Kath

The only thing I can see someone doing is either doing a film exactly to the storyline of the books or doing something so completely different it's barely recognisable.

Lord of the Rings 3000! When the futuristic Orcings of Planet Mudda attack Earth under the orders of their foul leader, The Sour One, it is up to a young human, Fred Bags, to rescue humanity. Together with his faithful servant Sam Jam, he must take the Digital-Ring of Power to Planet Mudda itself, where it must be cast into the open core of the planet, thus destroying it and deprogramming all the Orcings spaceships...

Actually, that sounds quite interesting. No, I don't know where it came from either, but I'd like to see that version of it.

[narfforc]

The way the Tekromancers are advancing the next Lotr films will most probably be wholly CGI. They can already use famous actors who have shed the mortal coil, or are now too old, this may well be a chance to use Brigitte Bardot as Galadriel or Errol Flynn in green tights as Legolas (I jest). Think of the actors/actresses who could play the parts, choose, the world is your oyster.

[Neurion]

For myself, I'd like to see a trilogy more accurate to the books made. The problem with my own particular vision of the story though is that the PJ films come extremely close to my conception of what Middle-Earth should look like, and to re-use a great many of the design elements and even props from the PJ trilogy would no doubt spark off controversy, as well as accusations regarding imagination or lack of imitation

However, changing things like the time Aragorn's taking up Anduril occurs, inserting characters like Galdor, Imrahil, Elladan, Elrohir and Beregond, leaving out the superfluous bits like the drinking game, re-inserting the Scouring of the Shire and cutting back on the amount of screen-time Arwen gets, as well as making the Gondorian soldiers more realistically tough versus the orcs and giving Aragorn the war-crown helm of the King of Gondor rather than that little tiara, just to name ahandful of hundreds of possible examples, would, I think, differentiate a second trilogy enough from the currently existing one.

[Durelin]

In ten or twenty years I'm expecting a re-release with the films *digitally* (or something...maybe 'holographically'?) remastered.

And then we'll all go to conventions and talk about the good ol' days when they were first released and there was nothing like 'em out there.

[alatar]

Remembering that a time existed in which the box into which you are staring did not exist, I can only guess at what 20-30 years will bring.

Of course we will get the re-release of Peter Jackson's work. Not sure on what media it will be sold - will DVD media even exist then (except for in museums and garage sales... "Why look, honey, it's one of those DVD players I read about on that antiquing website. Let's buy it and place it on the mantel next to that iPod thing we bought last month.")?

Hopefully someone with a true love for the work (like one of you youngsters out there) will use the technology of the day to create something worthy...like an interactive 3D book where you can walk alongside the Fellowship, speak with them (their answers are compilations of thoughts expressed at the Downs along with the original work), and get a real feel for Middle Earth, kind of like what PJ did via his 2D film (sans his departures from the story, of course).

"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades"

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

I think that remaking LOTR would be like remaking Star Wars, and I hope that neither is ever done. Then again, who would've thought they'd remake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Usually, when a movie is as popular as that you wouldn't think it would be remade... but who knows... who knows.
I think it's more likely for a movie remake to be done if it starts out as an original screenplay and not a book... or, if the director is just positive that his new version will surpass the old one. But, I don't think anyone would tackle remaking a trilogy. A single film remake is not as much of a risk for a studio to take.

[narfforc]

Alatar has got my mind racing on this one. I remember in the original Star Trek everybody laughed at the idea of the flip-top communicators, aren`t they sold now on every High St. Well imagine having your own Holodeck, first stop Middle-Earth please.

[Kitanna]

Originally Posted by Neurion

For myself, I'd like to see a trilogy more accurate to the books made...However, changing things like the time Aragorn's taking up Anduril occurs, inserting characters like Galdor, Imrahil, Elladan, Elrohir and Beregond, leaving out the superfluous bits like the drinking game, re-inserting the Scouring of the Shire and cutting back on the amount of screen-time Arwen gets, etc.

I think in order to get a vision of such a thing LOTR should be a mini-series. That is the only way to get many things in (such as Merry, Pippin, Sam, and Fatty helping Frodo move, Scouring of the Shire, Erkenbrand at Helm's Deep, Tom Bombadil, and so on). If the books were made into movies again and things added that many books fans wanted to see then the movies would never end.

[Nimrodel_9]

I'm not sure if I would like a remake unless it has been about 30 years. If they did remake the films I hope they would go off of the books more, not the other films.

[Neurion]

Personally, I 'd love more than anything to choreograph the battle scenes. A lot of complaints from the European martial arts community towards medieval/fantasy films deal with some rather silly conventions the film makers seem loath to abandon in their depiction of sword combat.

I'd want to do it the proper way, e.g. arrows will not penetrate plate armour (unless perhaps Elven arrows), swords will not be clashed together edge-on-edge, cavalry charges will not be conducted without benefit of shields and lances (and not by the Gondorians, who were almost exclusively infantry-based at that point), the list goes on.

I can just imagine Aragorn executing the murder-stroke with Anduril...

[Elladan and Elrohir]

Lord of the Rings will never be remade, but not for the same reason Star Wars will never be remade.

In my opinion, the only reason Star Wars will never be remade is because of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford. Those three actors embodied their roles and helped to immortalize Lucas' galaxy. Yes, there is the matter that the movies are awesome, especially for their time, but to me, that's secondary.

Lord of the Rings will never be remade because there's no point. What's going to impress you in a remake? They've already got ten thousand Uruk-Hai attacking Helm's Deep, they've already got the camera following Leggy's arrow right into an Orc's forehead, and they've already got the epic Pelennor Fields. What can really be improved? Sure, I know technology twenty years from now may make LOTR seem to us like the old Star Wars now do, but I don't see how it can be improved upon much.

Like it or not, Peter Jackson has made the definitive Lord of the Rings, for film.

My $0.02.