They can not be serious
Studios Stalk Tolkien's Hurin
Let's see, it's the story of a guy who knocks up his amnesiac sister and then both of them commit suicide. I can't imagine this not being the feel-good hit of summer, 2010.
posted by Mac @ 4/17/2007 05:38:00 PM
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If they're going to do a movie set that far in the past, they should do the story of Beren and Luthien.
If you were going to do a Silmarillion story, that would be the one, right? I mean, it's the only one with a happy ending. And Turin would be the last one.
Yeah, Turin is a really weird choice. I don't see how it could be made to appeal to a mass audience at all.
At least with B&L, you get a forbidden romance, a quest, a maiden trapped in the castle, and noble sacrifices all around -- all the classic elements of a good movie.
Hell, even the fall of Numenor would be cool. It has Hubris, deceit, decay and then absolute ruin. The modern parallels are already there and you could easily market it as an Atlantis story set in the Tolkien universe.
But they go with Turin. They may as well have just done Balrogs on Ice and be done with it.
I'd actually thought up a Fall of Numenor treatment. (This just in: I'm a huge nerd.) I think it would work, and if it's successful you could do The War of the Last Alliance as a sequel.
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