Rings of Power Gets Dragged Again; This Time by LotR Anime Producer
Jason DeMarco had recently trashed Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Twitter in a series of now-deleted messages.
Now, trashing The Rings of Power on the net is what great many people do, but his reaction drew a lot of attention, as DeMarco is a Senior Vice President of Action and Anime at Warner Bros. Discovery. He is also a producer of the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim anime-style movie, which is made in part to retain Warner's lease on the rights to adapt J.R.R. Tolkien's works.
But the extent of DeMarco's attack was such that he later had to delete his tweets, explaining that they've attracted too much negative attention. However, they were screencapped by YouTuber NBR before he could remove them.
In particular, he wrote:
"Why make a show that's first and foremost going to appeal to Tolkien fans, only to s**t all over the world, characters and story that made us all fall in love with Middle-Earth to begin with? I sure couldn't tell you."
Yeah, he might be right, but with words this harsh, and from someone working at Amazon Prime Video 's direct competitor, negative attention was pretty much inevitable.
Attention was also brought to the fact that DeMarco's initial Twitter reaction to The Rings of Power was positive. With Episodes 1 and 2 of The Rings of Power (which released together) you already could tell, what sort of the show it is going to be, but back then, DeMarco tweeted:
"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: pretty good! It looks and sounds great. The money is definitely onscreen."
DeMarco is not the first person involved with adaptations (an upcoming adaptation in his case) of Tolkien's work to blast The Rings of Power. For example, Bernard Hill (who played King Théoden in Jackson's movies) was highly critical about the whole concept to the point where he did not want to even watch the series.
Time will tell whether DeMarco's own project, which is, like The Rings of Power, based on a story briefly outlined in appendices to The Lord of the Rings is going to be more faithful to Tolkien's works. The War of the Rohirrim is planned to be released on 12 April 2024.