Could (Should) the Simarillion become a film?

[Gorwingel]

The only way the Sil could be done as a TV series is if they did it on HBO (or the BBC maybe) because they would be the only networks who would put enough money into it to make it worthwhile (and they also have a lot of experience doing large, high budget, mini-series). But I would highly doubt it.<P>Even though I love the book, I still don't think it would make a good series. LOTR was hard to get made, and the Sil would be even harder.<P>I still think though that the tale of Beren and Luthien would make a good film. But it would take a very long prologue to make normal non-book people understand the entire story.