<story><title>Peter Jackson on how Tolkien stopped a Beatles LOTR film (2021)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59387182</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Ultimately, they couldn&amp;#x27;t get the rights from Tolkien, because he didn&amp;#x27;t like the idea of a pop group doing his story. So it got nixed by him. They tried to do it. There&amp;#x27;s no doubt about it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a Beatles fan. Tolkien was right to be skeptical, it would have been terrible. No doubt in my mind: campy, perfunctory, self-mocking. Please recall how &amp;quot;nerd&amp;quot; material was treated before the 2000s, if you&amp;#x27;d like some precedent for what this would have looked like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shagie</author><text>&amp;gt; Please recall how &amp;quot;nerd&amp;quot; material was treated before the 2000s&lt;p&gt;And I present The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;BC35cQKHwzg?si=KWIbiEpEVb36tqh1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;BC35cQKHwzg?si=KWIbiEpEVb36tqh1&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Peter Jackson on how Tolkien stopped a Beatles LOTR film (2021)</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59387182</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Ultimately, they couldn&amp;#x27;t get the rights from Tolkien, because he didn&amp;#x27;t like the idea of a pop group doing his story. So it got nixed by him. They tried to do it. There&amp;#x27;s no doubt about it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a Beatles fan. Tolkien was right to be skeptical, it would have been terrible. No doubt in my mind: campy, perfunctory, self-mocking. Please recall how &amp;quot;nerd&amp;quot; material was treated before the 2000s, if you&amp;#x27;d like some precedent for what this would have looked like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Yes. The breakthrough was &amp;quot;Batman&amp;quot;, 1989, which redefined the fantasy&amp;#x2F;superhero genre. Before that, fantasy&amp;#x2F;superhero stuff was silly, unrealistic, or both. &amp;quot;Batman&amp;quot; changed that.&lt;p&gt;Of course, where that got us was franchises with endless sequels.</text></comment>