New 'Lord of the Rings' Movie from Stephen Colbert in Development at WB

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14 pointsvoxadam4 comments

If they managed to make 3 full movies out of The Hobbit, they'll surely be able to make a movie or 2 out of 6 chapters of LotR.

Rings of Power, an amazing show that manages to truly capture the feeling and atmosphere of the books, gets so much hate online. Yet all these garbage prequels and spinoffs get a pass. The Hobbit as 3 films? Really?

It's not just online. Rings of Power ratings fell off the cliff. By all reports of viewership numbers, it was awful.

People only watched it because it was in the Lord of the Rings univverse. As soon as they realize how bad it is, they stopped watching. I'm in this camp. I can't count how many times I fell asleep watching it.

Beside original LoTR everything else was pretty bad. Hobbit was soso, just because old crew was filming it.

All new series to milk the IP are and will be flops.

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