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Both yielded great movies I did read LOTR... Back when I was 9. I was at the wrong age for a book that is pretty adult, and came in with the wrong mindset. It's funny, actually... My parents said I was smarter than the other kids because I read actual books while they didn't, and I liked that feeling of superiority (oh boy, the absurdly dumb things we think when we are kids). Made me feel less insecure among the other kids who were into sports and socializing, and helped me figure out my place in the world. As I had liked the first movie on DVD, they put me to read a massive tome containing the entire saga. So I read it because, unlike Potter, no other child that I knew would read it so I would be crowned the smartest, most intelligent kid of the neighboorhood! But then I read the book and most of it went over my head (didn't stop me from bragging about it at school though). The funny thing is, my parents didn't help either. They should've given to me The Hobbit, which is more approachable for a young child and less complex than LOTR, then progressed from there, until I got to the the Rings saga in my early teens. But I'm not even sure if they knew the entire reading order of the Tolkienverse during those days, when we didn't even had internet at home. I must revisit the Tolkien books one of these days. Perhaps, when I have a child, maybe The Hobbit will help keep him/her away from social media addiction (BookTok doesn't help, the books they talk about there are Twilight and Fifty Shades-levels of quality).

Agreed. It's what I've been doing for the last few years. Reading my favorite comic books and imagining an amazing movie that Hollywood will never do because they simply are uncapable of. Especially with the usual idiots in charge.

Now imagine being a comic book fan who happens to see in these stories more than just an IP farm for Hollywood to put in the hands of guys who think they're much funnier than they actually are to infuse it with sarcastic and "witty" humor and create forgettable action comedies. Someone who believes that these characters and stories can and should inspire much better movies than those Hollywood is doing. Who wishes to see some of his favorite comics treated with respect, no sarcastic self referential humor, and framing these stories through the best cinematic tools available.

What does "Magnus Rex" means in this case? Is it like a production name for the movie?

Imagine going through each one of your posts, editing them individually and deleting their content. Unless he's a programmer who can write a script to do this task authomatically for him, it's an utterly boring, tedious task. And yet he did just that anyway. Wow. Just... Wow.

Also: in both of these years, we got/will be getting a brand new John Williams score during summer. Assuming it's the latter, I can imagine what made Powell interested. From THR's report: Per the description, it's an opportunity for him to pay homage to many classic scores of the past.

I dunno, I think his fee would be quite expensive.

“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and “Nightbitch” filmmaker Marielle Heller is set to write and direct a live-action adaptation of “FernGully,” which is in development at Amazon MGM Studios. The 1992 animated classic “FernGully: The Last Rainforest,” followed the magical inhabitants of an Australian rainforest as they fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus. The movie featured an all-star voice cast, including Robin Williams, Tim Curry, Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis, and songs from Elton John and Jimmy Buffett. https://variety.com/2026/film/news/ferngully-live-action-movie-marielle-heller-amazon-mgm-1236724657/

From The Hollywood Reporter link above: This might be the first time I'm happy an English defeated a Brazilian

Wow! Didn't see that coming. I despise those Minions/Despicable Me movies, but hey, whoever said I need to like a movie to listen to the score? As much as I don't care for Illumination, if they're going to become best buddies with Powell, then I'm all for it!

(but mostly Transformations from Wicked, Joining the Team, Into the Maw and especially Legend has It)

Some of my favorite Powell cues of the last few years are in Batu's page but not in Powell's

I haven't seen the movie, but Michael Kamen's score has some of his best cues.

I remember it did look great on the X360. And it surely deserves a remaster, especially if FL is a disappointment.