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| Hoult previously played J.D. Salinger as well |
A few months ago director
Francis Lee found himself in a sort of a pickle when the family of famous fossil hunter Mary Anning refused to give any support to his film
Ammonite in which she is played by
Kate Winslet as the film portrays her as a lesbian and there are no real records or evidence that she ever was lesbian. Something similar is happening now to another biopic -
TOLKIEN on the famous author of legendary
Lord of the Rings saga. His family has also decided not to endorse the movie and hasn't been a part of
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| Tolkien will hit cinemas worldwide May 10th |
its production in any way. But then again, they did not give support to
Peter Jackson's
Lord of the Rings and
Hobbit movies either, but they did back the upcoming
Amazon's TV series on the famous saga (for which they did get about $250 million for the rights - deservedly if I might say so). It seems that
Fox movie studios did not even try to involve the family in the movie which depicts the early years in the extra ordinary life of
J.R.R. Tolkien which influenced his later writing. His son
Christopher Tolkien said that the commercialization of his father's work has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing! With or without the family's support,
Dome Karukoski's movie in which
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| Nicholas Hoult takes the role of the father of LOTR |
plays famous story teller is ready to hit theatres around the world next month.
