I saw this news today, but wasn’t sure whether this should be “anime” or not. The working definition I have had up to this point is if a title has either an AniList page or a MAL page, then it is good enough for me to be included here. That being said, there are sometimes that posts about series get made when a series is newly announced for which the pages don’t exist yet. However, this project was announced a year ago and neither site has created a page for it yet.
As far as I can tell, this movie has a Japanese director from the anime industry, but most of the rest of the production is being done by Warner Animation, a US company. I believe the marketing and main voice work has been primarily done in English as well. These kinds of things are likely why a page hasn’t been made for the movie yet.
I am open to discussion among members of this community about whether this movie should be fair game for posts or not going forward. I am going to leave this up and see if others have thoughts.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t like this. This sounds like Rings of Power. I mean, I obviously hope I am wrong, but this already sounds bad. Tolkien wrote so much that hasn’t been adapted yet, why do we have to keep getting fanfictions instead?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 months ago
I’m constantly in awe of people’s assumptions that Tolkien actually wrote a complete narrative, much less a ready to go to screen script, about anything beyond the Hobbit and LotR.
If you want a movie or game about anything in Middle Earth besides the events of those four books it is going to be an adaptation with a bunch of filled in blanks, and it’s going to have to change details because Tolkien’s notes are mostly broad strokes history that simply will not make an interesting film.
discostjohn@programming.dev 7 months ago
I definitely used to feel this way, and I haven’t seen Rings of Power, so I can’t speak to it, but I’ve been steadily growing more open to the idea of people adapting the setting and building stories within Tolkien’s universe.