He’s not taking notes from Tolkien - he’s taking notes from Peter Jackson. Tolkien would be genuinely offended to have the movies attributed to him.
I felt the movies were a pretty good rendition. Heck even the license with the ending I fealt was done well. Granted I would have much prefered he followed more closely to the source. Still I can’t think of anything done as well as it relative to source material.
I completely agree. I love the movies and think they’re probably the best anyone could possibly have done with the property.
Even so, Sanderson is studying Jackson here, and Tolkien would take offense at the implication that he was studying him (that is, studying Tolkien).
Im not so sure he would. He is not studying story but how to do a good job of bringing written words to video. For what he is doing it makes sense to study jackson’s process of brining a story to the big screen.
From what Tolkien himself wrote about proposed adaptations, compared to Jackson’s actual adaptation, on top of what Christopher Tolkien himself said about Jackson’s adaptation, I’m very sure he would take offense at the idea that Sanderson was studying Tolkien and not Jackson.
They were excellent but Tolkien would likely have hated them.
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In defense of Jackson, there are a lot of key scenes that he nails. WB had such a hand in the production that I honestly feel like if he were just free to have creative control, the results would have been a lot better. Then again, he agreed to it and stepped in for the hobbit crap when del toro said fuck it so maybe he is just a total tool.
I honestly don’t know how much better the result would have been. I think if Jackson has free rein, he still omits the Scouring of the Shire.
Jackson also tends toward the dramatic, like how he changed the Witch King’s mace to a flail that was practically larger than the actor, or the completely unnecessary theatrics of Denethor’s death.
I don’t really blame him for the Hobbit, because when someone is throwing that much money at you, it’s hard to not just do the job and try to forget about it. He’d already finished the work that he wanted to do, after all.
Jackson definitely nailed a lot of important scenes though, and you can tell that he wanted to make the trilogy, which automatically makes it far better than if it were just modern content slop like the Rings of Power.
Yeah you are right about that with the things he decided to omit. I still can’t get over him leaving out Tom Bombadil and claiming he wasn’t important enough so that would have never made it either. I find both scenes being out is an insult to the hobbits and their character development. And as rough as the hobbit is, he got some important scenes in that as well. And the fan edit does make it a lot more watchable. Im glad there is a decent option anyway for some visual Tolkien but it could be better. But yeah, he paid much better homage in both than whatever the hell the ring of power crap is.
Take notes from Wheel of Time too that was a travesty. I think it’s a very flawed book series, but adding the show runner’s egos needing to deviate so heavily from canon on top of that killed all potential.
The title is misleading. He is taking notes from how Jackson adapted the stories and he is going to make sure the series doesn’t outpace the books. That last part confuses me., I thought all the books were written.
He should also take a look at how the Harry Potter books were adapted. David Hayman was the constant guiding hand in those movies.
The cosmere has reached its halfway point. Mistborn era 1 is done. Mistborn era 2 is done. Stormlight is halfway done, and there is a sizeable gap between book 5 and the next book to be published, though it wont be enough to count as a separate era, most likely
Stormlight seems like the hardest one of his worlds to do. Going to be a lot of CGI and very little real world grounding in the lore.
Is he taking notes from WoT?
Ugh. this insufferable asshole couldn’t word his way out of a wet paper sack.
Ugh. this insufferable asshole couldn’t word his way out of a wet paper sack
Maybe not, but he could write his way out of one.
