While we have a thread for what we watched, I thought it would be alright to discuss upcoming stuff in a different thread. I would say that this should be a no spoilers place, just more about recent announcements and what not.
To start, a pretty big one in the news right now is that Lord of the Rings is getting an Amazon tv show. Amazon paid the Tolkien estate 250 million dollars just for the rights. That does not include the actual cost of making the show. It has no one attached, so it's likely years out, but this is pretty big deal.
https://deadline.com/2017/11/amazon-the-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-multi-season-commitment-1202207065/I know there was a lot of people against it, but I'm 100% okay with it, though with a big asterisk at the end of that, because it depends on who they get for it and what their plans are. If it's all side and extra stuff from Tolkien or even new material, that's what I want. I don't want to see Hobbit or LOTR remade, I want different stuff, because I want to see that world expanded. I also don't want to see them try and "Game of Thrones" it. That's the only reason Amazon did this deal, but these are vastly different types of stories and I don't want a more "adult" take on the series, which usually just means sex, nudeity, and killing off a lot of people.