re: Stephen Colbert is writing a new LOTR film

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sgallo3

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you're losing this battle young woke one

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How can you be certain Colbert isn't writing 90% of the script?

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because Colbert has never written a script and Jackson hired someone who has wrote 7 screenplays for him.

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But you are the guy that knows what each person's contribution is going to be

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Never said that, I just know the power dynamics mean that Peter Jackson decides what goes in the movie and there's nothing Peter Mcgee can do to change that. They aren't equals anywhere other than your head.

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Do you know that Colbert isn't writing the entire thing and Philippa, Jackson, and McGee are just there to help with structure and organization?

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Yep

Boyens was brought in specifically to write dialogue for the LOTR Trilogy

I'll stick with what they have done for the previous 7 films until presented with evidence they are changing things just for this movie

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Boyens was brought in specifically to write the dialogue for the LOTR Trilogy

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Yes, we know. It wasn't all she did, but dialogue was her abd Fran's responsibility. It wasn't their only responsibility.

But that aside, irrelevant facts are still irrelevant

Do you have any evidence for the question at hand?

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we have 7 films of evidence

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7 films of evidence for what happened with those films

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I'll stick with what they have done for the previous 7 films until presented with evidence they are changing things just for this movie

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Oh neat.

I actually have that evidence

let's see here. . .roots through filing cabinet. . .Ah, here it is LINK

2 new writers to go along with what you described as merely a dialog person.

One guy is a producer/nepo baby, the other guy is a failed comedian/talk show host

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Wait, why does this evidence matter and not Colbert's last decade of evidence?

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Because its a Lord of the Rings movie by Peter Jackson so what has happened on every single Peter Jackson Tolkien film matters.

I'm very torn on this.

My awareness of Colbert is a hysterical anti-Trump mouthpiece, consumed with bitterness. I wouldn't willingly consume something he crafted.

On the other hand, chapters 3-8 of Fellowship... that's some integral LOTR that was omitted. There's a lot of magic in those chapters, which was deleted for the sake of streamlining the story for the movie. You could easily fill a 3 hr film there.

As for the "after Frodo passed" part, I think it's a simple storytelling trick... think The Princess Bride. If you remember, that was also a story within a story.

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Been thinking of a way to connect the events of the book version of the Barrow Downs and Aragorn tossing the Hobbits 4 random swords at Weathertop from the movie.

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Upon consideration, sadly there isn't.

The 4 hobbits arrive at the Prancing Pony at Bree, knowing full well that Frodo carries the One Ring and that he is being hunted by the Enemy.
A strange man (Aragorn) snatches Frodo and drags him off to a room, the others follow and... nobody has drawn a blade. Sam wields a chair.

And those chapters are supposed to establish that the hobbits are in over their heads, but not idiots. Merry is fairly capable.

There's really no reconciling that. If they had weapons, they'd have drawn them