Will the LOTR movies be remade?

[pegkerr]

From an article I ran across:

More Lord of the Rings movies -- oh, yesss, preciousss, we wantsss them.

And within the next twenty or thirty years, we'll get them. Children who watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy will take their own children to a complete remake of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's inevitable.

Most great movies will never be remade. We will never see remakes of The Godfather, or Gone with the Wind, or even Star Wars. But Lord of the Rings is different.

Why? Consider these five reasons...(read more here)

Hmm. Do you agree?

Comments

[rvrjoe775.livejournal.com]

For me, Derek Jacobi performed the definitive Hamlet, although he was a bit old for it. No other version compares. Don't even bring up Olivier or Gibson. I give Branagh credit for casting Jacobi in his version as Claudius, and note with amusement with Patrick Stewart played Claudius for Jacobi's Hamlet.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, I'm not saying that no screen version of Hamlet has captured anyone's heart. Just that there's no consensus on it, no overwhelming adoration from Shakespeare fans for one particular film.