By DANIEL KREPS
JULY 20, 2014 12:38 PM ET
We're nearing the end of The Hobbit trilogy as The Battle of the Five Armies is slated to arrive in December 2014. The film will culminate director Peter Jackson's 13-year-long, six-film voyage into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, and judging by the billions of dollars both Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit have generated worldwide at the box office, there is no end to the thirst among moviegoers for all things Tolkien. With that in mind, to help fill that Gollum void, two different movie studios are planning competing J.R.R. Tolkien biopics.
Five Actors Who Could Play Tolkien
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Attractive Films is currently working onTolkien & Lewis that will focus on the friendship between the Lord of the Ringsmastermind and The Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis. The two writers inspired each other both artistically and theologically, but religion and paranoia soon tear the two friends apart. The film is not exactly Legolas firing arrows into Orcs but it is still an interesting topic for a period drama. Con Air and The Expendables 2 director Simon West is currently tabbed to direct that biopic.
Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight is planning their own film simply titled Tolkien, based on a script by David Gleeson, that is a more straightforward look at the legendary linguist-turned-writer. However, neither biopic is a sure thing: The Tolkien estate has previously prevented other attempts to bring J.R.R.'s life to cinemas, like when they nixed a film called Mirkwood about Tolkien's experience as a codebreaker during World War II.
Read more:
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/competing-j-r-r-tolkien-biopics-in-the-works-20140720
JULY 20, 2014 12:38 PM ET
We're nearing the end of The Hobbit trilogy as The Battle of the Five Armies is slated to arrive in December 2014. The film will culminate director Peter Jackson's 13-year-long, six-film voyage into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, and judging by the billions of dollars both Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit have generated worldwide at the box office, there is no end to the thirst among moviegoers for all things Tolkien. With that in mind, to help fill that Gollum void, two different movie studios are planning competing J.R.R. Tolkien biopics.
Five Actors Who Could Play Tolkien
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Attractive Films is currently working onTolkien & Lewis that will focus on the friendship between the Lord of the Ringsmastermind and The Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis. The two writers inspired each other both artistically and theologically, but religion and paranoia soon tear the two friends apart. The film is not exactly Legolas firing arrows into Orcs but it is still an interesting topic for a period drama. Con Air and The Expendables 2 director Simon West is currently tabbed to direct that biopic.
Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight is planning their own film simply titled Tolkien, based on a script by David Gleeson, that is a more straightforward look at the legendary linguist-turned-writer. However, neither biopic is a sure thing: The Tolkien estate has previously prevented other attempts to bring J.R.R.'s life to cinemas, like when they nixed a film called Mirkwood about Tolkien's experience as a codebreaker during World War II.
Read more:
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/competing-j-r-r-tolkien-biopics-in-the-works-20140720
