New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies in the Works at Warners, New Line

[Blackfyre]

New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies in the Works at Warners, New Line

The studios have struck a multiyear pact with Swedish gaming giant Embracer Group, which holds the film rights to the property.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Warner Bros. and New Line are going back to Middle-earth, with the studio making a deal that will allow it to develop more Lord of the Rings movies.

The multi-year deal with rights holders Embracer Group AB allows Warners to develop features based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books and The Hobbit. Embracer Group, the Swedish gaming company, acquired the rights to LOTR film, games, merchandise, theme parks and live productions when it purchased rights holder Middle-earth Enterprises last year from The Saul Zaentz Company.

The move, announced during Warner Bros. Discovery’s investor call Thursday, comes as CEO David Zaslav seeks to assure Wall Street that Warners is very much in the franchise game as he harkens back to the 2000s glory days when the studio was minting money with Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and The Dark Knight trilogy. In November, Zaslav said he would like to make a deal with author J.K. Rowling for more Harry Potter, and initially floated the notion of a Lord of the Rings return.

 

[duncanthetall]

Zaslav the WOAT

 

[THE 101]

Hollywood is in such a bleak place right now.

 

[Conz]

i watched the extended editions of the movies over the past week, and i think they are truly one of the greatest feats in the history of cinema.

not watching the Hobbits. ... and i thought the show was kinda weak. lol @ Amazon though for spending a billion to make a meh show, and it's not even the only Tolkien project in town now.

 

[jay211]

I don't understand how Bezos didn't buy the rest of the rights to control the franchise. I'm all for new movies in Middle Earth.

 

[Μαρία]

I tried my best to get into the Amazon show but it was a huge letdown.

 

[humminbird]

he's trying to create his pillar franchises to keep them afloat
dc, Harry Potter, lotr, ???
he needs a fourth

 

[Dave24]

i watched the extended editions of the movies over the past week, and i think they are truly one of the greatest feats in the history of cinema.

not watching the Hobbits. ... and i thought the show was kinda weak. lol @ Amazon though for spending a billion to make a meh show, and it's not even the only Tolkien project in town now.

Where do you go to watch the extended version?

 

[Conz]

Where do you go to watch the extended version?

they're on hbo max

 

[Red Shield]

Huhhh does WB have the rights to any of the era's before the Hobbit/LOTR?

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

he's trying to create his pillar franchises to keep them afloat
dc, Harry Potter, lotr, ???
he needs a fourth

they were doing the monsterverse with Godzilla but to be honest The Conjuring franchise is one of the most profitable because they are dirt cheap

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Holy shyt.

How much walking can characters do? To me that's the whole premise. We gonna have to walk for like the whole 3 hours. Except for when we have to run in spots.

 

[Jmare007]

he's trying to create his pillar franchises to keep them afloat
dc, Harry Potter, lotr, ???
he needs a fourth

They should buy the rights to Mass Effect and give us the GOAT space opera


















In all honesty, WB ruining Mass Effect would be pretty funny

 

[Luke Cage]

don't even have any more source material to pull from. who are these screen writers who think they are as good as tolkein?
and why aren't they best selling authors?

 

[Rekkapryde]

They should buy the rights to Mass Effect and tuve us the GOAT space opera


















In all honesty, WB ruining Mass Effect would ve pretty funny

We've seen Disney fukk Star Wars over.

Nothing is safe.