Middle Earth seen by Tim Burton would give these images according to fans who had fun transposing the director’s universe into Tolkien’s world.
From time to time, fans like to imagine their sagas and other favorite works in a new version, what they might have looked like, made by another filmmaker with a well-defined style for example. Today, it’s the turn of Lord of the Rings to be re-imagined in Tim Burton style and the result is downright convincing!
The Lord of the Rings is one of the most influential literary and cinematographic sagas of all time. Not only have JJR Tolkien’s novels inspired the world of fantasy literature as a whole, but their big screen adaptation, by Peter Jackson, has, for its part, revolutionized the world of cinema and special effects, laying solid foundations for generations to come.
We cannot therefore imagine another director at the head of this monumental undertaking that Peter Jackson. But the Hello Medusa YouTube channel did it. And if The Lord of the Rings was made by Tim Burton ? That’s the question she asked while offering her animated (AI-assisted) version of what it could have looked like – and it’s pretty impressive! The style of Tim Burton being well defined, we would really believe it…
On the program, a dark, gothic and somewhat sinister atmosphere, 3D puppets and bulging eyes (even more than usual for Gollum, it had to be done!): everything is reminiscent of Les Noces funèbres (2004) or even Frankenweenie (2012), with a little nod to The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
We let you discover Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn (who looks like Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, don’t you think?), Gollum, Boromir, Legolas, Gimli, the Nazgûl, Sauron, Bilbo and the others in “The Lord Rings of Tim Burton” – a Tim Burton who we can also see in his animated version at the start of the video!
Otherwise, the real Lord of the Rings trilogy by Peter Jackson can be watched again in streaming on Prime Video.