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- From: paulg@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul A Gunderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Disney & the movie
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 15:57:30 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <suwandi.724960593@sfu.ca> suwandi@fraser.sfu.ca (Julian Suwandi) writes:
- >
- >It'll be cool if Disney is to do a LoTR movie.. With the musical elves, the
- >special effects for the Balrog.. hmm.. Maybe if we are persistent enough,
- >Disney may do it! Then again, I might be dreaming.. :)
-
- If I remember correctly, Disney *had* the rights to do _LotR_ while Tolkien
- was still alive. They bailed out. JRRT was not unhappy about this. While
- he would have liked the $$$ the movie would have generated, and was willing
- to bend a fair amount (like axing Bombadil) to get those $$$, in the end he
- didn't much like the Disney "style" of doing things.
-
- This was all discussed in _Letters_ somewhere...
-
- > Julian Suwandi | Quotes / Unquote of the week
- > 643-0827 | Insanity is hereditary...
- > suwandi@sfu.ca | You get it from your kids.
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- Paul Gunderson
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