-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
J.A. Bayona (Jurassic World 2, A Monster Calls) will direct the first two episodes of Amazon's "The Lord of the Rings"
- Thread starter Deleted member 5853
- Start date
I'm so worried about this series. I really don't want it to have that "TV" look. The Lord of the Rings trilogy looks and sounds great. I'm just hoping it doesn't turn into what Game of Thrones was by the end of its run.
Please be good. Please.
Please be good. Please.
This is INCREDIBLE stuff.
Bayona is a great director, and really works well with the material he is given. This series is going to look fucking stunning.
With Bayona at the helm, the look of the series will be the last the thing we need to worry about honestly.
Bayona is a great director, and really works well with the material he is given. This series is going to look fucking stunning.
With Bayona at the helm, the look of the series will be the last the thing we need to worry about honestly.
Amazon doesn't have many great shows, but their production values are through the roof. They aren't gonna cheap out on this one.
he still was willing to attach his name to that pile of trash so even if he has talent as a director i have no confidence that LOTR will be good
The actual direction of that movie wasn't really one of its problems.
He's good, this is in good hands at least in that department. Let's see about the script.
EDIT: I mean, of course he's gonna attacht himself to such an opportunity lol, who can blame him. Stuff like that movie (which I think made quite a bit of money still) grants him more chances to do what he wants.
JW2 was baaaaaaaaad, but maybe this will turn out decent.
Idk tho, Amazon wanna will this into a GoT type of hit but they need to have the guys they got writing to really throw it down, this shit can't be mediocre like so many would-be TV behemoths.
Idk tho, Amazon wanna will this into a GoT type of hit but they need to have the guys they got writing to really throw it down, this shit can't be mediocre like so many would-be TV behemoths.
The Downfall of Numenor is what I expect we'll see in the opening episodes, plus an exposition dump of the happenings of the First Age.
Jurassic World 2 was complete crap, but Bayona's directing wasn't one of the reasons. I'm glad he's getting another shot with a better script.
I will echo others that it really wasn't the directing or visuals cause JW2 is a good looking film, as I don't think anyone can make that script work right.
Not sure about the script yet, considering the dearth of source material to use.
Now's a good of time as ever to talk about how good looking and well shot Fallen Kingdom is
LoTR is in great hands here.
LoTR is in great hands here.
He's definitely got some big shoes to fill. This will be the first non-Peter Jackson interpretation of Middle-earth in live action.
This movie is the clearest example of a great director directing the hell out of a bad script.
At the moment, it seems he'll have very little involvement beyond an advisory role.
Oh ok thank you. Hope he has some input, even if small, in this series. He made me love fantasy and made what's IMO the best film of all time.
The director is basically as good as what ever the script handed to him is, I think many people don't understand that.
He's a competent director it seems from being able to get projects done and has worked on CG heavy feature length films before so he should be more than up to the task of this.
Whether or not it's "good" comes down to what's on the page.
He's a competent director it seems from being able to get projects done and has worked on CG heavy feature length films before so he should be more than up to the task of this.
Whether or not it's "good" comes down to what's on the page.
I'm also interested that do they use stuff from Weta. Like some props and especially unused designs.
Not sure on the writers but he's a great director. I fucking hate Fallen Kingdom but that movie managed to have some great direction despite a breathtakingly dumb script.
I'm not sure that would work aesthetically. Numenor in its prime was vastly different to Middle-earth in decay in the Third Age.
Very talented director as anyone who's seen his non-JW films knows, and even then he made Fallen Kingdom make look quite gorgeous at times even though the script was total dogshit.
I was thinking something like designs from that scene of Last Alliance. And to continue my train of thought, will they visually try to keep these in the same universe as films. But that we'll see.
it had some decent horror direction. the movie was so god awful though that it was hard to appreciate any of that. plus I didn't care for his talking tree movie too tbh.
No kidding, the first few minutes are incredible. Bayona is a good director, no one could've saved Jurassic World 2 from that script.