Almost no one is looking for Chronicles of Amber anything, it would probably go over as well as John Carter. Middle-Earth has a very large built in audience.
Please note I was a fan of both the Amber Series and the John Carter of Mars series.
oh I know, there is very little demand for it (sigh). At least they made a John Carter movie though!
Envisioning this movie, and I’m worried it might be a musical about Tom Bombadil. The other option might be even worse though, that it is about Tom Bombadil and is not a musical.
My skepticism is that, just by going by the events that actually happen in those chapters, it doesn’t feel like enough to actually make an interesting movie, unless you are a serious Tolkien-head.
Those chapters start after Gandalf reveals to Frodo what the Ring actually is, and assigns him the quest to take it to Rivendell, but wrap up before they reach Bree. There’s a couple of tense scenes (the first encounter with a Nazgul – which is already in the Fellowship movie, Old Man Willow, and the Barrow), but there’s not really a beginning nor an ending in there.
Which all makes me concerned that, like the Hobbit films, there will be a lot of inventing more encounters and fights out of whole cloth, in order to pad out the time, and make it something even remotely resembling a self-contained tale.
Judging by the comments, the world will never get enough Tolkien material. Like Potter, Dune, King Kong, and the Bible, it will forever be redone.
I agree that it might be unsatisfying to present the 6 chapters as a linear narrative. Lots of temptation to add unfaithful padding.
In the video, Colbert refers to a framing device. Maybe the chapters are told individually as flashbacks (sort of vignettes) while working through a different conflict in the present? Or something similar? I could see 90-120 minutes of that.
Well, in the books, he does sing…
The worst part about the audio-books.