How long before LOTR and/or The Hobbit films are remade/relaunched?

How long before we see LOTR remade?

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The reason I think the movies won't be remade for at least 20 years is because New Line and Peter Jackson got into a spouting match over the rights of the novels. What is known as the Tolkien estate headed by Tolkien's children, are none too happy with the direction of the movies. They think it is too Americanized and for some reason they thought that the movies need more of his original songs that he put in the books. I honestly think they were mad that Tom Bombadil wasn't included in any of the movies, but I could be wrong. I think the dispute could last twenty years or longer. I'm still not entirely sure how Jackson was able to pull it all off, and make it the success it was!

That being said it will be extremely hard for anyone other than a blood relative of Tolkien to remake it. Without Jackson's direct involvement.
 
Cli-Fi said:
The reason I think the movies won't be remade for at least 20 years is because New Line and Peter Jackson got into a spouting match over the rights of the novels. What is known as the Tolkien estate headed by Tolkien's children, are none too happy with the direction of the movies. They think it is too Americanized and for some reason they thought that the movies need more of his original songs that he put in the books. I honestly think they were mad that Tom Bombadil wasn't included in any of the movies, but I could be wrong. I think the dispute could last twenty years or longer. I'm still not entirely sure how Jackson was able to pull it all off, and make it the success it was!

That being said it will be extremely hard for anyone other than a blood relative of Tolkien to remake it. Without Jackson's direct involvement.
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I thought one of the producers owned the rights, if so think it would only depend on whether they wished to make more money (providing there's a filmmaker/studio exciting about doing it.

It's well-documented the Tolkien Estate doesn't like the films but don't think they could stand in the way of remaking unless some material was being taken from the Histories.
 
I'll go with 10-20 years, in the hope I'll be around to see it. I couldn't understand why Jackson left Saruman alive in the movie, but killed him off in the DVD version at the tower. So I do want to see the scouring of the shire, when they meet him on the road...
 
The sooner the better... I hope this time it'll be someone who actually knows and respects the books and, hopefully, can work with the Tolkien estate on the adaption. I'm hoping for the TV miniseries as it will allow for more leisurely pace and character development.
 
Stephen Palmer said:
It'll be a generation before the films are re-made, I reckon. Hopefully never.

I would be interested in hearing a new audio adaption though. The BBC adaption from 1981 is still peerless and exceptional, but, well, with sound-only you can do more...
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I know they take more then a few liberties with Tolkien , but I like them just the way they are. Im hoping they don't remake theses films.

As for audio dramas, No matter how well done , Im just big on them.
 
Less than 10 for me and it will be a TV miniseries. CGI advances a decade every year and, as has been cited, HBO is going to need a successor once GoT is done. Also, and again as has been cited, the miniseries format will finally give it enough time to be done as it should, (the entire book was nigh on a million words or more, yes?). I don't know how much control Tolkien's estate retains of the rights but I've always understood that authors keep fairly little influence vis a vis the movie companies and there is money to be made while the success of the other films is still fresh.
 
JoanDrake said:
Less than 10 for me and it will be a TV miniseries. CGI advances a decade every year and, as has been cited, HBO is going to need a successor once GoT is done. Also, and again as has been cited, the miniseries format will finally give it enough time to be done as it should, (the entire book was nigh on a million words or more, yes?). I don't know how much control Tolkien's estate retains of the rights but I've always understood that authors keep fairly little influence vis a vis the movie companies and there is money to be made while the success of the other films is still fresh.
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I don't think LOTR would work as a tv series. first of the biggest obstacle would be The Tolkien Estate.
 
BAYLOR said:
The BBC supposed to be nonprofit
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No, not in USA or Charity sense.
There is BBC Enterprises selling stuff in UK and BBC Worldwide (I think) non-UK.
They are not* supposed to advertise on BBC Radio or TV *IN THE UK*. So while all of U.K. (and Ireland) can receive BBC World TV (Free, with Adverts) via satellite, it's on a DIFFERENT satellite to the one all the regular UK TV is on (Sky & Freesat Ghetto TV), some people have a multifeed satellite dish, but this is MUCH rarer in UK or Ireland than Mainland Europe or USA.

The BBC is "non-profit" in the sense of too many managers, inefficient and always wanting to do more than what they have income to support. They ARE a Public Service Broadcaster (so in a way is UK Ch4, but it has adverts). UK ITV and UK C5 are purely commercial.

The BBC is also funded by the Licence Fee, essentially really a tax, not a subscription, as you pay it if you watch ANY UK TV. In UK you used to be able to get a TV licence exemption if you proved you only watched "Foreign TV". Such Exemption never applied in Ireland as the TV licence (Tax) started 6 months before Irish TV and might have been 7 or 8 years earlier (very many Irish people from 1950s could get BBC, then ITV. The Irish TV started 31st December 1961 at about 10pm, Irish TV DOES have adverts as well as money from Licence fee).

BBC & RTE (Ireland) are not PSB in the same sense as in USA. They both run mass market channels and make programs down to the lowest common denominator and chase ratings. RTE (due to 1/20th of licence fee income potential as Ireland is 1/20th population) is a Commercial broadcaster too. TnaG is the Irish Language PSB + Commercial Broadcaster. UTV-I and TV3 (once owned byy UK ITV) are the Irish equivalent of UK ITV and C5 commercial only broadcasters.

Then there are are the "multichannel" stations that before Terrestrial Digital were only on Cable and Satellite. They are almost all pay TV. The free ones get less than 0.5% viewing time.

[* BBC of course cross-advertises it's own channel content. In fairness I can't remember them promoting any of their content in the shops on UK TV and Radio, but then they don't need to]
 
In about another 30 years the right J RR Tolkien's works will pass into public domain. That allow other writers to do stores set in that universe.
 
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