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Originally Posted by Foxbat It's not that I think they will become an endangered species - quite the opposite in fact. It's my opinion that there will be a glut of second rate fantasy movies jumping on to the LOTR bandwagon. All you have to do is look at the number of low quality SciFi movies that followed in the wake of the first Star Wars film. The problem, as I see it, is that it will cause audiences (now caught by the lure LOTR) to drift away from the fantasy genre when these start to appear. They will do more harm than good to the genre. |
I'm not sure I agree with you on this one Foxbat. Every filmmaker out there planning a fantasy has to be aware of the immense expense and time that was invested in the LOTR trilogy and will be wary of creating a poor copy. I think it might make fantasy filmmakers work harder to live up to the standard that Peter Jackson created. In fact, I am sure that the backers that filmmakers go to will make this part of the equation "Can you prove to me that you can make a film as good as LOTR that doesn't cost me as much or take as much time?". Peter Jackson did a wonderful job of recreating one of the most beloved novels of our time. A great deal of the success is the story itself. All he did (I say 'all' but it was quite a lot) was to create a pretty faithful rendition of a very familiar story. If the story itself had been bad, all the wonderful work he did with costuming and setting and backgrounds and filming would have been a waste.
Of course, we'll basically just have to wait and see where it does go. I'm ever hopeful that subsequent fantasy films will be of a better quality than many in the past. What we might see is that more successful fantasy novels will be translated - since the stories are already there and familiar to the readers, creating an automatic audience.
I've got my fingers crossed.
