With adaptations of his books all but exhausted, a biopic of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien is being developed by Fox Searchlight.
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Originality is not something one can easily place in the same sentence with Hollywood these days. It’s one of the depressing facts about where the current state of filmmaking has taken us; remakes, sequels, and rip-offs dominate the landscape. This sad fact is part of what makes Beasts of the Southern Wild – the debut feature for Benh Zeitlin – so great.