It seems a stretch, but with Chris Pine in talks to star in a new Paramount adaptation, bring on the mind flayers.
It is hard to believe that Peter Jackson’s first Lord of the Rings movie, The Fellowship of the Ring, is now almost 20 years old, yet a new 4K restoration of the full trilogy reminds us without doubt that this is the case. At the turn of the century, it was not superhero movies or space opera that hit that purple patch of audience mass interest combined with critical praise, but unexpectedly, a big-screen adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s high-fantasy triptych. It was a work thought unfilmable after the debacle of Ralph Bakshi’s unfinished 1978 version.