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Hollywood, out of ideas

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If I recall correctly, The Man Show once had a fake movie poster done up for a Detective-Buddy-Action movie starring Lou Diamond Phillips as a private detective and Gary Coleman as his developmentally challenged sidekick called, "Tonto & The Tard."
 
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Seeing as how they've made The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit into movies already, they could make The Silmarillion into multiple movies. Yeah, It's kind of all over the place, but I think it would top all of it's predecessors given the fact the conflicts were infinitely larger than any in the third age (The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings age)
 
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Smudger;2135437; said:
Seeing as how they've made The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit into movies already, they could make The Silmarillion into multiple movies. Yeah, It's kind of all over the place, but I think it would top all of it's predecessors given the fact the conflicts were infinitely larger than any in the third age (The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings age)
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There is no way in hell Christopher Tolkien will ever sell the rights.
 
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jwinslow;2135474; said:
Why?

Is he in possession of those rights but not the others? Or is there a reason he is more protective of their rights?
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The short of it is that Christopher is a sad little man who has spent his life parceling out bits and pieces of his father's work and has made every effort to control any and all access to it.

He sued *New Line/MGM/UA/everyone associated with/ a couple of years ago in the vain hope that he could kill The Hobbit film in addition to receiving a $100 Million+ payday (the latter of which was very likely legitimately owed to the Tolkien Estate by the notoriously tight fisted New Line).

J.R.R. originally sold the film rights to LoTR & The Hobbit in the 60's. Christopher had no power to stop them from being made into movies. The rights to the Silmarillion belong to Tolkien Estate (ie Christopher) and he has publicly stated he will never release them while he is alive.

Edit: *Going back and rechecking the timeline it appears that Warner Brothers had bought New Line Cinema by the time the lawsuit occurred so the WB would have been the primary defendant.

As an aside the rights issue is one of the main reasons I am not a fan of splitting The Hobbit into two movies. It means that any of the information about Dol Guldur & the Necromancer (Sauron) drawn from the Silmarillion or Unifinished Tales is completely off limits. That will leave us with most of the 'new' material being written by Jackson (and whoever he brought in to help with the scripts) which is where the LoTR were the weakest.
 
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