I generally trust Colbert and/or at least give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm sure he's done something I don't care for, but I cannot think of a single thing I'm aware he's been involved with that I haven't liked. Well, I didn't watch the Colbert Report mostly because while I found it hilarious, I could only take that concept in tiny doses in the same way some folks can't read too much of the Onion because it's just too fucking close to reality. lol.

And yeah, with his passion about LotR… I'm hopeful for good things. And I say this having not watched the Hobbit trilogy once I heard they added all the crap to it. I don't expect movies to be 100% faithful, but I want them to try. Like imho how The Expanse series - even changing up stuff from the book, but the authors were in on the writing and they basically just introduced characters sooner. It worked. And other changes they made were mostly translating from one form of media to another where different things work differently.

Nevermind, this is going to slap, hard.

I hope so. Very very much! :)

[–] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Chloe Zhao was a huge Buffy fan and her enthusiasm for the show got Sarah Michelle Gellar to sign-on to her reboot.

Hollywood loves franchises and reboots because of the built-in audience, but her pilot was so bad they scrapped it entirely.

Nothing about this project is at all comparable to The Expanse, which was adapting a series of books, with the authors involvement.

This is adapting a few chapters, without the deceased authors involvement.

A much more relevant comparison would be The Rings Of Power, which was similarly based on an extremely limited scope of Tolkien's work and while I'm sure some people enjoyed that show, it was broadly very much disliked, as evidenced by it being canceled.

While others are free to disagree, I think it's fair to say that every Tolkien project, after The LotR trilogy, has been bad, or at best, just not very good.

I'm not saying that this is destined to be bad, I was just taking issue with the notion that it's guaranteed to be good.

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

He comes out in full bombadil hey merry doll