# Peter Jackson's Next Big Fantasy Film: TEMERAIRE **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452 "2006-09-12T19:11:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/21 "2006-09-14T04:59:13Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] As for this story, I guess I’ll be going off to read it - maybe I can get it from the library today. It sounds a bit too modern for my tastes, honestly - aviators? Naval careers? Historical fantasy can be fun but I like it to be more fantasy and less history. [/QUOTE] Icky. I think I’d prefer a movie version - the concept is fun, but the writing in the novel stinks. The characters are fairly standard one-dimensional bad fantasy cliches, and an unsurprising plot. Serves me right. I should stick to my fiction comfort zone: quirky modern fiction by young male authors. For some reason, that’s all I feel like reading at the moment. Any and all recommendations appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/22 "2006-09-14T05:13:35Z")
Hmm… sounds like the one-trick-pony-ization of Peter Jackson is well underway, then. Too bad. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/23 "2006-09-14T10:05:56Z")
I’d still like to see a screen adaptation of Larry Niven’s _Ringworld_. I know the book/series has it’s faults, but I still think it could make a good movie, and Jackson seems as good a guy as any to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/24 "2006-09-14T11:22:33Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Hmm… sounds like the one-trick-pony-ization of Peter Jackson is well underway, then. Too bad. -FrL- [/QUOTE] No more than Spielberg. His next film is The Lovely Bones, which is hardly in the same vein as LOTR or King Kong. ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/25 "2006-09-14T12:34:12Z")
Woah… I came across this series only two weeks ago - I’m reading the third book now - and so help me I thought, “They should make a movie of this. If Peter Jackson could do _Lord of The Rings_, _Horatio Hornblower_ with dragons can’t be too hard.” Do I trust Jackson to do it right? Well, I loved LOTR, mostly liked “King Kong”, and haven’t seen his earlier work. I’m not thrilled that he’s going the present-day-supernatural route (if I heard correctly about _The Lovely Bones_) but but I think Peter could handle the Napoleonic era. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/26 "2006-09-14T13:06:39Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar] I just want to see what Smaug looks like when Jackson gets through with him. [/QUOTE] This is sorta why I think Jackson won’t end up making The Hobbit, Smaug is really the only thing that would be new from LOTR. We’ve already seen Orcs, Trolls, Rivendale, elves, Dwarves, Giant Spiders, Hobbits, Wargs, Eagles, Gandalf, etc, etc. It’s going to be the same movie as LOTR but less epic, which doesn’t seem like it would be a very interesting film for Jackson to make or people to see. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/27 "2006-09-14T13:08:25Z")
[QUOTE=Malodorous] This is sorta why I think Jackson won’t end up making The Hobbit, Smaug is really the only thing that would be new from LOTR. [/QUOTE] err..and the shapeshifter guy, which would also be pretty sweet to see on screen. But I really can’t think of anything else that would be “new” from the LOTR films ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/28 "2006-09-14T14:27:20Z")
Oh, I don’t know. The interplay of Bilbo and all of the Dwarves would be well worth it. Think of Gimli to the Nth degree. I hope Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving and Andy Serkis all reappear. Oh, and a young Aragorn (Estel). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/29 "2006-09-14T14:31:09Z")
[QUOTE=plankter] I’m not thrilled that he’s going the present-day-supernatural route (if I heard correctly about _The Lovely Bones_) but but I think Peter could handle the Napoleonic era. [/QUOTE] I dunno, from his handling of the ghosts in LOTR (i.e. cheesy green fakey ectoplasms,) and from what I hear about TLB, he would be _perfect_ as a director. That said there is a dearth of Napoleonic era fantasy so I will have to check out those books. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/30 "2006-09-14T14:35:25Z")
Maybe they could make the Scouring if they could get back all the actors. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/31 "2006-09-15T04:43:29Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Oh, I don’t know. The interplay of Bilbo and all of the Dwarves would be well worth it. Think of Gimli to the Nth degree. [/QUOTE] I think that’s more of a problem then an advantage, honestly. 1 dwarf was entertaining and unique, twelve is going to be too many for the audience to keep track of. Even in the book, I only remember getting a sense for the characters of two or three of the (non-Thorne) dwarves. > [@](#): > > I hope Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving and Andy Serkis all reappear. Oh, and a young Aragorn (Estel). Could have Orlando Bloom in the Hall of the Woodelves and at the Battle of the Five Armies as well. Would no doubt help draw in the young female audience. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/32 "2006-09-15T14:34:58Z")
[QUOTE=Malodorous] Could have Orlando Bloom in the Hall of the Woodelves and at the Battle of the Five Armies as well. Would no doubt help draw in the young female audience. [/QUOTE] Except for the part where the Wood Elves were, you know, the bad guys… ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452/33 "2006-09-15T15:10:41Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Ah yes the lovely Hashberry. Why do I remember this stuff? [/QUOTE] You think Orlando Bloom would be up for Legolam? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jacksons-next-big-fantasy-film-temeraire/372452.md?page=1)