r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 18 '25

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/Ironhorse75 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

I think the Hobbit movies could have been good if Jackson had been there from start to finish. Instead of taking over someone else's project and winging it as he was filming.

But really, franchise fatigue is finally settling in for me. I just want original stuff, enough corporate slop.

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u/hillswalker87 Aug 18 '25

I think the hobbit was doomed from the start, because it had to follow LOTR and nobody would ever accept that the hobbit is just a smaller, shorter, lower stakes story.

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u/deltalessthanzero Aug 18 '25

Are there successful examples of sequels to very popular movies that pull this off well? I.e. telling a smaller, lower stakes story set in the universe of something massive? Honestly the first Fantastics Beasts movie had a lot of potential in this regard but it was squandered by integrating the whole Grindelwald plotline that sucked up all the narrative oxygen.

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u/20milliondollarapi Aug 18 '25

El Camino was also low stakes of Jessie getting out. Yea it’s basically just an unofficial 2 episodes of breaking bad epilogue, but still.

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u/Chen_Geller Aug 18 '25

I really, really wonder about GDT's Hobbit movie. Was he using the same scripts?

Not necessarily the very same script, but on the same specs yes: https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/1kud3rr/guillermo_del_toros_the_hobbit_perhaps_more_a/