The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script?
'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.
Fantasy is a demanding genre.
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.