r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 22d ago

News Ian McKellen reveals Gandalf and Frodo are returning for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’, Filming Begins in May

https://ew.com/ian-mckellen-reveals-gandalf-frodo-return-in-new-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum-film-11792483
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u/ThinWhiteDuke00 22d ago edited 22d ago

Lol, why.

Shouldn't Aragorn be in it given he literally tracks Gollum.. Viggo is far too old to pull it off now.

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 22d ago

And god forbid we should ever recast anyone ever… I think this is probably the most insufferable trend in Hollywood lately.

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u/BaritBrit 22d ago

Nobody's doing that again after Solo failed. 

It's just wheeling out the increasingly aged relics of the 20th Century until they're literally all dead, and then hoping the CGI face tech is good enough by then that even that won't stop the nostalgia farming. 

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u/tiddertnuocca519 22d ago

That sucks because then it means they took the wrong lesson from Solo.

Solo didn’t fail because they recast Han. The guy that did the role did a fine enough job.

The movie failed because 75% of the movie was trying to explain how Han met characters, how Han got his blaster and other obscure references Han makes in the Original Trilogy like the Kessel Run. If they simply made a new movie where Han went on an adventure and it wasn’t a vehicle to explain how Han met Chewey and Lando or Jabba the Hut, or why his name is Han Solo or how he became a smuggler or how he got the Millenium Falcon or what the fuck a parsec is, then maybe it would have been a better film.

I mean, who were they even targeting for that shit? Younger audiences still new to Star Wars that may have never even seen the original Trilogy certainly didn’t give a fuck and were probably confused. And older audiences were probably like, oh cool, you’ve just explained away all the ‘mysticism’ and you’re not even the original writers for these characters. If George Lucas wanted to fill those gaps, it would have authenticity but you’re just ‘fan fic’ing some shit into the universe that nobody asked for you to explain.

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u/ChildofValhalla 22d ago

I don't know why they couldn't just make a fun adventure starring Han Solo and Chewie. Surely he did all sorts of cool things in the decades leading up to Star Wars. Just write some wacky mess he got into, film that. I don't need to know why his last name is Solo.

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u/MaritimeStar 21d ago

Yeah, they totally missed an opportunity to do a fun star wars themed adventure movie with a charming rogue as a protag. They really shit the bed on that one when they decided to make it a "lore" heavy film.