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[rogueslayer452]

++ Two new communities have emerged: raikantopeni for Thai dramas/media, and cnovels for everythihg related to Chinese novels/webnovels.

++ Critical Role has announced the debut of Beacon.tv, their new special membership service which will have extra goodies including early access to their content, discounts on merchandise, pre-sales for live shows, among other things as listed in the package. Something I've seen people already loving is Critical Role Cooldown, which operates similarly to what Adventuring Party is to Dimension 20 where it's the cast immediate reactions directly after filming a session. I haven't signed up yet, I may wait a little bit before doing so (similarly to how I waited until finally signing up for Dropout), but so far the reactions have been quite positive so that's reassuring.

(This is certainly a better reception and better delivered than what Watcher Entertainment did with their disastrous announcement/launch of their streaming service, it's like night and day.)

++ So, there's going to be another Lord of the Rings movie in the works from Warner Bros with Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis attached supposedly called The Hunt for Gollum. Aside from already knowing that this is just Warner Bros capitalizing yet another known IP, I don't have much to say about this, really.

Comments

[haebin]

It pains me to see that they will do a movie about Gollum. I love LotR, I love the movies, the books, the music, the fanart! But in this case I know that Warner Bros is making the movie only because they wanna milk the franchise. ;_;

[rogueslayer452]

It's such a bizarre move. While some are claiming that this will most likely be more of an Aragorn and Gandalf movie, how would that even work? Would they get Viggo and Ian McKellen back? Would they recast the roles? Would they (god forbid) use CGI to deage or have AI renderings of the actors? I just don't get it.

I'm just going to treat this as I have with Rings of Power, it'll be a thing that exists that I just ignore.

[pianogurl330]

I love the Lord of the Rings trilogy but I wish they would leave it alone! I don't want a Gollum movie.

[rogueslayer452]

They're definitely milking it, which is inevitable given the lack of rights for adapting The Silmarillion, but man, does it suck.

Interestingly, someone did many their own fan film about this concept fifteen years ago and Warner Bros attempted to have that video taken down because of this, but thankfully got the copyright strike removed and it's back up.