”The Lord of the Rings is now also a book!
I passed a bookshop in an airport recently and I noticed how quick they were to make a book about “The Lord of the Rings”. It’s fascinating how people can squeeze every commercial drop out of a masterpiece.
As soon as a filmmaker has made an effort to create a really classical movie experience there comes a craving, not as successful, writer to make some money from the success.
It’s not enough just writing a book on an already existing movie. No, there should be a sequel. The Lord of the Rings is now three parts. Some people even say that the two sequels came out before the movie. Extreme rudeness! And also that “Harry Potter”. Was the movie so great that they had to make four or five book on the same theme?
I’ve heard that they have whole teams of soulless writers who write the sequels faster than ever. I guess that’s why they have these weird names. Because they are made up I mean.
Like which serious writer would ever call himself J.R.R. Tolkien?
Oh no, you can’t fool me.
It would be nice if this sequel-phenomenon could be limited to books and writers, but no.
Now even movie classics as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet” are to be re-made into plays at theatres.
Nothing is sacred anymore. Commercial powers use any means possible to exploit art as an object for earning money.
I’m not looking forward to the day when they get there hands on my absolute favourite movie “Jesus Christ Superstar”. Honestly, when did you read a book that was better than the movie it was based on?”
Quoted from ""The Quick Trigger"" 
