That was fantastic!
And if I'm not mistaken, that's the same premiere date of The Fellowship of the Ring waaaaaaay back in 2001.
Rings of Power S3/Hunt for Gollum Anticipation and JRR Tolkien Discussion thread
And if I'm not mistaken, that's the same premiere date of The Fellowship of the Ring waaaaaaay back in 2001.
Oooooohh Excitement activated!
Andy Serkis Defends His ‘Hunt for Gollum’ Cast and Confirms He’s Not Directing Stephen Colbert’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Film
The British actor-filmmaker addressed criticism around the lack of diversity in his 'Lord of the Rings' film, which currently stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Leo Woodall, Kate Winslet and Jamie Dornan.
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Andy Serkis Defends His ‘Hunt for Gollum’ Cast and Confirms He’s Not Directing Stephen Colbert’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Film
The British actor-filmmaker addressed criticism around the lack of diversity in his 'Lord of the Rings' film, which currently stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Leo Woodall, Kate Winslet and Jamie Dornan.
Not surprising from someone who's working for Angel Studios.
Except not really:
From what I can tell with a little internet research, Andy Serkis was shopping Animal Farm around to various studios and Angel Studios was the one that picked it up.
So, I guess I won't hold it against him, but I'm still not going to see the movie.
When saying Angel Studios' films and TV shows are not released in Islamic countries, only Christian-themed films and TV shows are being referred to. Films like Sound of Freedom, which are not Christian-themed, are released in those countries.
Two films set in real world places vs one set in a made up fictional world.
Are people racist because they're stupid or stupid because they're racist?
Moana is set on the fictional island of Motunui. There is a real world Motu Nui but it's an uninhabited spit of rock near Easter Island.
And Middle Earth isn't made up, per se. It's supposed to be our Earth 6000 years ago.
But The Sound of Freedom is pure propaganda and very MAGA coded.
Here's a perspective on Andy Serkis whether you agree with it or not.
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It's possible; generally, aside from tenth-rate films like Citizen Vigilante, these kinds of films are treated like standard propaganda films, such as Rambo movies, and because they're made by small studios, they sell all the rights to foreign distributors. However, I've read in a few other places that this film is difficult to watch.
No matter what you do these days you piss someone off, The Rings of Power casts people of different races and one side is pissed at them, and now The Hunt for Gollum has an all white cast and the other side is pissed about it. You kind of have to feel a little sorry for people making these kind of movies, because someone is always pissed about some decision you made.
Personally, I'd be all for a more diverse cast, but I'm not upset enough about the lack of diversity to boycott the movie or anything like that.
Personally, I'd be all for a more diverse cast, but I'm not upset enough about the lack of diversity to boycott the movie or anything like that.
Lord of the Rings at San Diego Comic Con. I suspect we'll get a RoP season 3 trailer.
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LOTR at SDCC 2026: Panels, Merch, Events, Everything you need to know
San Diego Comic Con returns next week with tons of The Lord of the Rings related fun! TheOneRing.net will be holding court at Booth 1934 near door C. All the Tolkien related Panels Amazon Prime Studios is bringing Season 3 of Rings of Power to Hall H on Friday, with a few other fun LOTR
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Middle Earth isn't real, and nothing really says that there aren't black Hobbits or elves, just that the named ones we see are white. Did Tolkien intend for the characters to be white? Probably, but he was born in 1892 and while his work manages to avoid stuff we'd now consider problematic in a way most work from his generation didn't he still wasn't perfect and he had his own biases. Literally nothing changes in the story if some of them aren't white, so there is no reason to not have more diverse casts, especially with less important characters. Yeah the humans might lean toward less diversity because of how the human civilizations are set up, but nothing is different with more racially diverse Hobbits, elves, or dwarves.
Now I'm a big supporter of being as loyal as possible to Tolkien's work while adapting, and I'd side toward casting characters to be similar to how he described them, but there is no reason to not have diversity in extras/minor characters and its only a positive for an adaptation.
Comparing that to movies that take place in real world places is stupid, not having racial diversity in a movie set in ancient China is a completely different situation and its really disingenuous to use stuff like that to defend Andy Serkis being racist. Tolkien won't be rolling in his grave if there are some black Hobbits, elves, dwarves, etc. Of all the problems Rings of Power has, the black people aren't one.
Andy Serkis is a hack as a director, a racist, and a supporter of gen a.I. and as such, as far as I'm concerned, he can fuck off. I'll take a poorly written RoP over any of his crap.
Anyway...
Middle Earth is supposed to be English mythology of a forgotten history about 6000 years ago. It should be treated similarly to the mythology of other regions such as Aboriginal Australia, Greece, and Polynesia. Moana's version of Polynesia is just as fanciful as Tolkiens version of pre-England.
‘Hunt For Gollum’ Director Andy Serkis Defends Film’s All–Andy Serkis Cast
LONDON—Responding to concerns about the lack of diversity in his upcoming project, The Lord Of The Rings: The Hunt For Gollum director Andy Serkis defended the film’s all–Andy Serkis cast during an interview Friday. “It isn’t my fault that the characters in the books are all Andy Serkis,” said...
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