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

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Originally Posted by Elladan and Elrohir

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.

I would have to disagree. Hollywood is notorious for remaking films ad nauseum - whether the remake is better, worse, exact, modified - as they tend to go with what works/worked. And aren't plays by Shakespeare still being performed? How old's that stuff, and hasn't all of his works been done to death?

There was a time when the Bakshi movie was the end-all, be-all, yet here we are in another century with a new production. Think what life will be like in 20 or 30 years. If I were to look back that much time, most if not all of what you may take for granted wasn't here, wasn't available or wasn't even imagined. Think the original Star Trek TV series - in the Sixties people couldn't even conceive that in the 23d century that a person could carry a device with a color image screen, like most cell phones have today. Look at the evolution of computers! What will they bring to the movies in that many years? Like no more live actors ?

Plus, back in the Glorious 80's, my friends and I started filming our own version of LOTR. Surely JRRT is grave-spinning due to our 'rewrite ,' yet we too were inspired by the books to make a movie. Wanna bet that there's someone out there right now who has read the books and/or watched the PJ movies and thinks that he/she can make a better flick?

Anyway, I've posted my thoughts earlier in the thread, but just wanted to point out that LOTR will be remade in my lifetime..hopefully by my children so that I can due a cameo - I have my carrot at the ready.