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Speaker 1: Now we've got some big news for the film industry

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand. Kate Winsletter is coming here to film

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Speaker 1: another Lord of the Rings film. It's called The Hunt

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Speaker 1: for Gollum. Ian McAllen and Elijah Wood are also expected

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Speaker 1: to be connected to this thing. Film reviewer Dominic Corry

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Speaker 1: is with us now.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Dominic, Hi, Heather mad do you reckon there's an

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Speaker 2: appetite for more of the Lord of the Rings stuff?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? I think, sort of from two angles, there's an

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Speaker 3: appetite for it. You know, Hollywood is so based on

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Speaker 3: intellectual property these days. It's all about known stories and characters,

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Speaker 3: and with things like Star Wars in the Marvel universe,

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Speaker 3: you could argue that they've run them into the ground.

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Speaker 3: And even though there's no shortage of Lord of the

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Speaker 3: Rings material out there, it's still, relatively speaking, still feels

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Speaker 3: rather under exploited, if that's a word we can use.

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Speaker 3: And also I think that there's still a huge amount

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Speaker 3: of goodwill on the audience's side for this franchise. In fact,

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Speaker 3: every year that passes that original trilogy just seems better

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Speaker 3: and better because we're now realizing that it was the

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Speaker 3: last gasp of a kind of tangible, practical form of

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Speaker 3: blockbuster film making that will probably never be mounted again,

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Speaker 3: including in this new one where you know, the Hobbit

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Speaker 3: films were a lot more digital than the original trilogy,

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Speaker 3: but just the fact that they built all that armor

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Speaker 3: and got the Alvin cloaks and all that kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: I think people are just have so much good will

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Speaker 3: with that franchise as part of you know, as partly

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Speaker 3: as a result of that tangibility.

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Speaker 1: So is there a chance that this too, Lord, I'm

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Speaker 1: probably going out on a limb here, Dominic. Is there

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Speaker 1: a chance that turns into something like the Marvel universe

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Speaker 1: or you know, any of the DC universe where you

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Speaker 1: just have all these off spinning stories that go on

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Speaker 1: for decades.

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Speaker 3: There's a strong chance of that. In fact, I'm concerned

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Speaker 3: that that is the case a few.

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Speaker 4: Years ago, because it devalues the integrity of the property,

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Speaker 4: and market forces demand this kind of project, and you

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Speaker 4: could That's why I said the sort of an appetite

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Speaker 4: from all angles.

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Speaker 3: It's been a long time since you had a live

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Speaker 3: action Lord of the Rings movie. People don't be seen

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Speaker 3: to be paying a huge amount of attention to that

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Speaker 3: TV show, So Peter Jackson associated Rings project would generate

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Speaker 3: a lot of excitement, I think, but we haven't. As

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Speaker 3: I said, we haven't run it into the ground yet.

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Speaker 3: But also a couple of years ago, there was this

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Speaker 3: animated film, The War of the Row here or a

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Speaker 3: year ago, and I understand part of the reason that

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Speaker 3: was made is that when you make a deal for

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Speaker 3: these characters and these intellectual property rights, you have to

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Speaker 3: make a film every certain number of years to maintain them.

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Speaker 3: And I gather that was not the official reason, but

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Speaker 3: I gether that's partly why that animated film exists, and

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Speaker 3: so they can't sort of sit around on their hands

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Speaker 3: for too long. They kind of got to get something

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Speaker 3: going to maintain the ownership.

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Speaker 2: Interesting. All right, Dominic, thanks for that app I'm glad.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad that.

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Speaker 1: Well, I was just gonna say, I'm glad that you

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Speaker 1: sound happy about it, but you don't, actually, Dominic Corey

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Speaker 1: film Reviewer, Well, I tell you what I'm glad about.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that I actually nailed it with my question

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Speaker 1: because I thought Jesus is going to come off real

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Speaker 1: stupid in a minute, isn't it. But then it wasn't

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Speaker 1: as stupid now apparently not as stupid the Hunt for Gollum. Apparently,

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Speaker 1: if you're like, where does this fit into the yarn,

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Speaker 1: there's seventeen years between Bilbo's birthday party and Frodo leaving

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Speaker 1: the shire, it happens.

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Speaker 3: Then.

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Speaker 2: Also follow up question, which I should have.

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Speaker 1: Asked Dominic and didn't, was how the hell do you

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Speaker 1: make Elijah Wood look like he's a kid again. He's

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Speaker 1: like fifty years old now, but he needs to go

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Speaker 1: back to looking like that. So anyway, I look forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing how that works.

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Speaker 3: For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive.

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