Christopher Tolkien to finish lost Middle Earth novel

[William Cloud Hicklin]

But bring, say, Ingmar Bergman back to life and put it in his hands - now that would be great cinema.

Yes!! In black and white. With Max von Sydow as Turin. And of course everybody dies.

Puts me in mind now also of Peter Brooks' King Lear, with Paul Scofield. Also B&W, in a stark snowscape- and, again, Lear ends with everybody's corpses strewn around.