Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film rights up for SALE

Chris died for nothing!

variety.com/2022/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-tolkien-zaentz-rights-sale-1235176036/

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I hope it gets bought and destroyed so Any Forumsacks can finally stop their cringy larping about WE WUZ LORD OF THE RANGZ N' SHEEEIT.

Would buy the franchise just to pull a TLJ on it and BTFO the fanbase forever.

do you have 2 or 3 billion?

The fansbase has the books. The films mean nothing.

why wouldn't amazon just buy it

This was the biggest eye-opener for me:

>The Zaentz Co. holdings encompass rights to exploit “LOTR” and “The Hobbit” properties in film, video games, merchandising, live events and theme parks. It also includes limited matching rights should the Tolkien estate decide to make movies or other content based on two compilations of Tolkien writings that were published after his death in 1973: “The Silmarillion” and “The Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth.” (emphasis added)

Can someone explain what "limited matching rights" are? I know it can't be the outright rights to make anything based on these.

>The fansbase has the books.
Reading is shit, books are shit, this cannot be refuted.

This has nothing to do with the Tolkien family, these rights have been out of their hands since the 1960s

You don't realize it, but it's only a matter of time before talentless hacks get to pump out fan fiction books just like Dune and to a lesser extent Star Wars. Just give it time bros. It could happen in only a few decades.

That already happens.

From what I understand, whp buy these rights will have the entire Moddle Earth Ip under their hands and could license it to other companies? This means that even a non movie entity could buy them and then license it to Amazon or WB, including toys, games, etc

Fan fiction books that are declared cannon in the current year?

>Films

Thank god its nothing that matters.

>cannon
Bookfag can't even use the rite words.

>Hollywood is about to stampede into Middle Earth. An array of movie, merchandising, gaming and live event rights to “Lord of the Rings,” “The Hobbit” and other titles from author J.R.R. Tolkien are coming up for auction now that the Saul Zaentz Co. has decided to sell its Tolkien holdings.

>Zaentz Co. has hired ACF Investment Bank to handle the sale process, which is unfolding this week as bankers make the rounds of the logical Hollywood buyers. The Tolkien properties are projected to fetch at least $2 billion, based on recent high valuations for top-tier IP and content producers.

>Representatives for Zaentz Co. and ACF declined to comment.

The timing of the sale process is not accidental. Amazon is set to premiere its long-awaited, mega-budgeted TV series rendition of the enduring “Lord of the Rings” saga, “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” on Sept. 2. Amazon is at the top of the list of prime candidates to pursue the additional rights now held by Zaentz.

The Zaentz Co. holdings encompass rights to exploit “LOTR” and “The Hobbit” properties in film, video games, merchandising, live events and theme parks. It also includes limited matching rights should the Tolkien estate decide to make movies or other content based on two compilations of Tolkien writings that were published after his death in 1973: “The Silmarillion” and “The Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth.”

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>caught me phone posting
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>Warner Bros. also maintains some film development rights to “LOTR” through its ownership of New Line Cinema. New Line had massive global box office hits and Oscar wins with director Peter Jackson’s trilogy “Fellowship of the Ring” (2001), “The Two Towers” (2002) and “The Return of the King.” Warner Bros. last year announced plans for an anime theatrical feature to be produced with New Line and Warner Bros. Animation, “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.”

>But it’s understood that in the Zaentz Co.’s view, substantial live-action film rights reverted back to them last year in part because Warner Bros. had not been actively developing new “LOTR” and related content. That development, plus the anticipation for the new Amazon series, was enough to convince Zaentz Co. that the time was ripe for a sale. Warner Bros. declined to comment but it is believed that the studio and Zaentz Co. are already odds over who controls what when it comes to “LOTR” and “Hobbit” rights, which have been the subject of extensive litigation over the years.

BLAME WB YOU LAZY FUCKS

Readers are the most npc retards in the world, what else is new.

SELL WHAT? They already fucking made a movie. They squeezed 3 more films out of one prequel book. Now they are trying to make a TV series out of obscure history events in an incomplete short story book. There is no more content.

REMAKES

But this sale is about the whole IP including Silmarillion

>Bros
Yes the Silmarillion is the incomplete short story book with obscure events. It's not a real book.

Shhhh you'll make them cry. How will they brag about reading it if you just invalidate it like that?