the thing that really GETS me about all this nonsense with the hunt for gollum is like.
from the very moment this project was brought into the public eye the Only reaction I've seen to it is skepticism. the Core Premise of the idea feels unnecessary and redundant on the face of it, nobody has faith in it as a piece of art that Needs to exist
and andy serkis's idea for how to fix that is, Apparently, to hold up a big I Am Racist sign and see what happens. to Completely And Utterly Unprovoked go on a media tour talking about how intentionally Undiverse the movie is gonna be.
"hobbits Feel white" hobbits are described as having multiple races of multiple skin colors From Go. just Immediately. it's embarrassingly easy to point out.
and it's just like, What's The Plan Here Andy? if the skepticism has been fueled by this being a clear, Unnecessary, cash grab that has to invent material from thin air to justify its own existence, WHY are we out here peddling nonsense that's disproven in the First Pages Of The Book. I could play the sample of Him Reading This from the audiobook.
this Certainly can't be coming from a place of Faith or Confidence in the material. if he wanted to Disprove the idea that this is shamelessly tap dancing on tolkien's writing he'd have done that wouldn't he, instead of proving the point. eroding any last shred of confidence by (Unprovoked) signaling that this movie Wasn't made with tolkien's intent in mind.
its Only function is to pre-emptively try to cater to bigots, to hope that if he can make a big enough media stir he'll get butts in seats for his mediocre slop solely to Own The Libs. and that goes quadruple with the the concurrent announcement of ai usage.
it feels desperate in a way that he wouldn't need to be if he were making a movie that deserved to exist
