I would watch, but the whole premise of the OP makes no sense. The Silmarillion is not a single story, and it covers so much ground that you could make twenty movies out of it.
You might as well try to cover the entire Old Testament in three hours.
The OP specified “carte blanche creative control,” which to me implies that he could pick a single story from the book to base the movie on, if that’s what he thought would work best.
And yes, I would watch, unless I heard enough bad things about it from other people who had seen it.
It would be nice to see her nude.
Unless the cast Matt Damon as Beren and Paris Hilton as Lúthien or some mega-carp like that I’d watch it.
However, 3 hours would be rushing many stories.
I second the HBO/Amazon Prime idea. A production a la Game of Thrones
I was thinking you meant “What if P. J. Wodehouse wrote the Silmarillion]”
What Ho!
A single three hour film about Beren and Luthien might be awesome.
If it was done right, I can’t even imagine how awesome it could be! Think about Glaurung coming out the gates of Angband flanked by Balrogs!! Omgomgomg…
Nope, not interested. With The Hobbit, Jackson completely squandered the extremely high regard I held him in after LoTR. Probably in one go, at the moment when he said to himself “Yes, I think I’ll cover Radagast in birdshit!”
“…Look, the book doesn’t say Radagast didn’t have a rabbit sleigh, so he does.”
“…Look, the book doesn’t say were-worms couldn’t tunnel hundreds of miles in a few days, so they can.”
I agree with you.
Clearly one of us is an imposter.
Well, at least he wouldn’t have to make up the strong female action hero. It was Luthien who with Huan battled Sauron and defeated him to rescue Beren. Luthien went to Angband with Beren. It was Luthien’s magic who disguised them. It was Luthien who cast the spell on Morgoth. It was Luthien who healed Beren.
In fact, through most of the Ley it was Luthien. Beren did some some stuff before he met her. He did the leap. But through the quest for the Silmaril, it was Luthien (with Huan) who carried the water. Then, after they were wed, Beren and Huan did the hunting of the wolf.
But even worse problem with Luthien than it was with Arwen and Galadriel. With Arwen and Galadriel you were casting the second and third most beautiful women ever. Luthien is the most beautiful woman ever. You can cast whoever you want, but she’d never live up to that description. (It’s like Buttercup in “The Princess Bride” – Robin Wright is attractive, but was never the most beautiful woman in the world except in the eyes of someone who loves her.)
LOTR got great reviews, and I thought they were great. The Hobbit movies got mediocre reviews, and the one I saw (the first) was mediocre.
Therefore, I’ll wait for the reviews and decide based on that.
However, if Jackson hires Andy Serkis to narrate as Gollum, I’m there!
Dunno. Sounds fishy to me.
Yes, but this is Peter Jackson we’re talking about. His whole MO is to not only include everything, but to go looking for MORE, and then add an unnecessary love triangle on top of it all. 
If Peter Jackson could edit himself down to one story, that really would be worth watching.
I hate you :), but a mega-carp would be an interesting plot twist.
I would have to wait to hear the reviews. The Hobbit trilogy went from OK, to bad to so very awful that it is hard to trust Jackson again. I had some problems with the LotR trilogy but those were mostly nitpicks and I know it. The Hobbit overall was garbage.
I would greatly prefer to see the Sil done by BBC & HBO as a combine project. Do it as a 2 year series.
God no. I only really like one of the six Tolkien movies he’s made so far (another is fine and four are horrible).
Unless reviews were fantastic, I’d stay away.
I’d see any such movie regardless of the reviews, because I’m just that crazy for Tolkien, but dear Lord I hope PJ would’ve learned some lessons from fan criticism of the overlong videogame that was The Hobbit.
I was gonna post that. A little background so we know whi Melkor, Thingol, and Melian are then right into Luthien and her bride-price. It’d make a terrific movie and it’s even got a pre-discorporated Sauron as a bonus.
Then it becomes the Middle Earth equivalent of Traffic or Syriana or one of those rom-coms with a cast of 50 in a series of seemingly unrelated but interlocking stories.