LOTR Screenwriter Philippa Boyens Reveals the One Story She’d Love to Adapt From The Silmarillion

Описание: When it comes to the little kernels of information that can be pulled from J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium, there's probably no one with more experience on how that can be turned into a filmic story than Philippa Boyens. As a writer who has worked on all three of the Lord of the Rings movies, all three of The Hobbit movies, and now The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, it seems like Boyens is totally tapped into Tolkien's work. Her latest project jumps into the recent past to the story of Helm's Deep and the people of Rohan. In the film, the people of Rohan are attacked by an army of Dunlendings after their king, Helm (Brian Cox), ruthlessly kills Freca (Shaun Dooley), a Dunlending lord, with one blow. As a result, Freca's son, Wulf (Luke Pasqualino) seeks revenge and drives the people of Rohan toward their most trusted fortress called the Hornburg where they must survive a siege.

Collider spoke with Philippa Boyens about her work on this franchise and what, for her, was the most crucial scene that had to be done right. We also discussed how Boyens finds the kernels of storytelling she needs for these eras of Middle-earth history that aren't so well fleshed out. Finally, Boyens talked about her dream Tolkien story, involving the legendary Beren and Lúthien. If those names sound familiae, it's because they are the characters from The Silmarillion who later went on to inspire the movie version of Arwen (Liv Tyler) and Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen).

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