The end of a franchise!
Maybe!
Don't count on it!
You're watching Beyond The Trailer's review
of The Hobbit The Battle of the Five Armies...
This was the last move in a master plan!
A plan long in the making...
These bats are bred for one purpose.
For war.
Leave Sauron to me.
Bilbo was right.
You cannot see what you have become.
Everything I did
I did for them.
Recently, when asked if this was truly the end of this franchise,
Peter Jackson responded “It doesn’t have to be.”
Whaaaat?!
Yes that’s right, if Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara
could find a way to keep Harry Potter alive
why not The Lord of the Rings?
After all, of the top ten grossing franchises of all time
this number six
and so the studio isn’t going to let a little thing like no more film rights get in their way.
See the Tolkien estate has said they won’t sell the film rights to any other of Tolkien’s works
and that’s because they haven’t received a dime from the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Looks like the Tolkiens don’t know one of the most important rules in Hollywood:
get a cut of the gross, not the net.
But hey, while some say this is an “insurmountable” obstacle,
I bet Tsujihara correctly hears what the Tolkien Estate is actually saying
“cut me a check”
And if one thinks the addition of creative involvement might be too a high price for Tsujihara, think again
as right now JK Rowling is writing her very first screenplay for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
But while Tsujihara works on keeping this franchise going,
in the meantime Jackson must work to keep it alive.
A considerable lack of action in the first two Hobbit entries has resulted in a depreciation at the box office
with The Desolation of Smaug failing to join the billion dollar club
but it did come close
and gets the honor of joining Mockingjay Part 1 is the “winner yet... also kind of a loser’s circle”.
That’s why the title of this film was changed from “There and Back Again”
to “Battle of the Five Armies”.
Yet it seems this third entry still has an uphill battle
with the industry predicting a seventy million debut, the lowest of this trilogy
and a good ten million below the first entry An Unexpected Journey.
Finally, even if this franchise continues,
it’s the end of the line for several actors - and their last chance to make an impression
which could give their overall careers some momentum.
So, time to find out if The Lord of the Rings has come roaring back to life
or if Warner Bros is forcing it to stay on life support...