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And it’s all-white, mostly male cast is probably not going to play well today to boot.Īll this said, I can envision something where Amazon just throws an absolutely ungodly amount of money at a project like this between high profile directors, a big name cast and a budget for endless large-scale battles where all that plus the Lord of the Rings name pretty much forces an audience to tune in just to see how it all plays out. That show is also based around political subterfuge and morally grey characters while Lord of the Rings is…less so. Re-adapting the original trilogy would mean a story that everyone has already seen before, lacking the kind of surprises that keep Game of Thrones fans coming back. I also just don’t think that Lord of the Rings is built for TV, especially after a wildly popular film adaptation. To lose that loses most of the point of an adaption. Fundamentally, a show like Game of Thrones works because it’s based solidly on George RR Martin’s original writing (at least it used to be). That…also does not sound like a great plan, as we’ve seen what happens when people try to go off-script with Lord of the Rings, like with Peter Jackson’s bloated Hobbit trilogy or Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor/War’s fan-fiction retelling of the pre-LOTR narrative. The other option could be that Amazon could simply use the world of the Lord of the Rings to set a fantasy show, one that is not a flat remake of the original trilogy, but an original creation. I get that it’s been over a decade since all this happened, and in this Hollywood era of reboots, that’s long enough to cast three people as Spider-Man, but trying to catch lightning in a bottle a second time with a LOTR show does not seem like it would go well, as the original films are so iconic and beloved and it wasn’t that long ago.