Either that or more Conan films, made by a true American, with manly men doing manly things!!
I think it would be better to start with an entirely new project, as opposed to an existing one. Seems kind off to me to suddenly bring all the other studios in on Conan. Makes more sense to do something new IMO.
...Or at least the Hobbit.
I think LOTR would be better to adapt for this super project over the Hobbit. LOTR has the larger fanbase, is more prominent in the public consciousness, and it would be the far bigger spectacle as well. This one is more personal, but I also just think that it make for the better narrative if it was LOTR as opposed to the Hobbit.
I still want to make Dune first to make a testbed of how far we can push the technology and Special Effects.
Honestly, I'm sure we could probably make Dune and release it faster than it would take for the first LOTR film to be made, especially considering not only how fucking big of a project it would be, especially if we filmed all 3 films at once like what was done OTL, but also because it would be a lot of work to coordinate between the various studios, which would almost certainly mean production wouldn't be as fast as it could otherwise be. I'm also sure that the other studios would be happy to let us take the brunt of making Dune and testing out the tech that would be used for LOTR first in order to see if it works, so that they don't have to take the risk themselves. Let the 80s be the decade of Fantasy and Sci-Fi Epics! Dune, LOTR, Star Wars, and Conan!
We own the Hobbit rights and the LOTR but those are with stipulations that Tolkien (chris) gave us.
We don't own the silmerilion and i doubt anyone ever will.
That's exactly my point. There is no way that we're getting the rights to The Silmarillion or getting permission to create something entirely new within the setting in the same way we did for the Conan rights.
The main focus here is going to be on artistry, which may make things not as simple, as well. For better or worse, Hollywood is here to PROVE something, and a relatively simple adaptation might not be enough.
It wouldn't
be just a simple adaption though. It would be an adaptation of one of the cornerstones of western fiction, the series that nearly single handedly spawned the modern fantasy genre, and one of the greatest stories ever told. OTL LOTR was a "relatively simple adaption," it remains as one of, if not
the greatest, trilogy of films ever made. I think we ABSOLUTELY prove our point with LOTR. It's also rather poetic, in that we'd be pitting a western classic against what China can produce, which will almost certainly be drawn upon their own existing stories and classics, which means directly pitting western classics against eastern classics, and providing us the opportunity to prove our storytelling as "superior" and clip their wings before they ever get off the ground.
