"…one suspects that the popularity of the video game The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which was released last year, was at least part of the project’s inspiration."
"Popularity"
"…one suspects that the popularity of the video game The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which was released last year, was at least part of the project’s inspiration."
"Popularity"
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As a comedy I hope.
the “popularity” of the game was due to people that played it because it was so bad bruh
Wicked, tricksy, false!
We’re living in the dumbest timeline.
Lmfao. What an embarrassing article.
Since we’re running with stupid ideas, someone please make a dating sim in which you play as Jar Jar Binks.
This takes “out of touch Hollywood Executives” to a whole new level.
Oh fuck, now Peter Jackson is gonna make 3 more nothingburger movies and waste everyone’s time.
Yeah dude, the same kind of “popularity” that brought morbius to theaters a second time
And I’m betting the movie will meet the same fate as the game. It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
Is that a typo, did they mean unpopularity?
That is my bet, Andy Serkis couldn’t let them get away with the injustice they did to his boy, Gollum.
Well yeah it was very popular…. Very popular to make fun of
So reporters now operate on memes or what? Because last time this shit happened was when Morbius got back to the cinemas only to be laughed at again.
[Infamous]( https://youtu.be/0b6_i_eSgR8?si=8S62gvZy7GvojNHi)
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Example 3 million four hundred and fifty showing incompetent authors of articles.
Let them do it. Cost us nothing and they will lose millions
See, we all talked about it therefore it is popular.
The whole entertainment world is just a.i. game developers and a.i. movie producers feeding off each other, until every piece of future media is just the word “groundbreaking” over and over.
Can we just bully them into not doing it
I don’t think popularity means what he thinks it means.
Oh my fucking god there’s no way this is real
The “inspiration” for the Gollum movie is $$$.
Tolkien obviously didn’t think Gollum’s story was that important.
With who?
Clueless article author, obviously.
Wasn’t that the literal worst reviewed game of the year? Ten fucking seconds’ Googling would tell them how wrong that statement was.
Please stop with all the Golum shit!
They’re just fucking with us at this point
lmao
I mean, sure, infamy is a *kind* of popularity…
Hahahahahahahaaaa
“Well, the metrics showed that searches for the word “Gollum” went up 5000% after the game was released, so we’d be fools to not capitalize on that buzz!”
I would rather read articles about gems of the adult gaming industry, such as Futanari Mesugaki with Big-Cock Who Never Loses to Semen-Squeezing Creatures
Can’t wait for that Gollum and Morbius crossover.
This is the kind of article that an AI wrote and then a person with no prior knowledge of any of the content sifted through to make sure it sounded kind of human.
This has to be a late april fools joke
Did they base that article off a Reddit comment and didn’t know what /s meant?
I mean, I like the story of the game. The game play not so much.
Bookmarking these comments in the event Andy Serkis pulls off a really good film and everyone flips around and says, “I always knew he could do it”
I think I read somewhere that a Sims movie was in the works. Like how the fuck does a digital dollshouse work as a movie. Movie execs are really clueless.
I’ve lost hope
HUH? lol what
I don’t think anyone has ever asked for a gollum movie…
Quality and actual popularity are meaningless to corporate America. What he meant was engagement, there was a lot of engagement online about this shitty game. What a bunch of dumbasses
I mean negative popularity is still popularity…
I remember when reporters had to do research. Good times.
To be fair it was very popularly known as being an absolute pile of garbage. Maybe that actually contributed to a desire for some decent Gollum content.
There’s a Gollum game?!
I’ll hate watch it.