I will be using blender animation and stop motion animation and green screening the blender part to the background. like I said I have been planning this for years and I finally got my skills to the level I want them to be. It will be filmed at 15 fps.

Quite an undertaking.  I'd love it, though.

I hate to be a wet blanket, but is it really going to be fulfilling to reshoot two hours of another director's film? I mean, we're talking many months or more likely years of work here. The idea of remaking a film in LEGO is appealing on the surface because it seems like an immediate accomplishment (having remade an entire professional work as an independent amateur). That said, what do you really get out of it? Ultimately you're offering something that has already been done very well with trivial changes; I can't think of any real advantage to filming LoTR with bricks, aside from the spectacle. As a viewer, I'd much rather see an original fantasy film than a remake of an existing one, no matter how well done it may be.

I don't mean to put you off ambition- if you decide to go through with this I'll likely watch at least some of the end result (though to be honest it would have to be incredibly well done to convince me to watch the whole thing). I just don't want to see you commit to a project only to suffer the agony of realizing after months of hard work that even if you do finish, the end project won't be something you can really feel personally invested in. I've done it before- it isn't fun. By all means, make your own decision, but I think you deserve fair warning that things might not work as smoothly as you hope.

I love your ambition, but I do agree with Squash that re-creating an entire film in Lego, as cool as it is, wouldn't be enjoyable enough for some people. Also, I really don't see how Star Wars would be much harder than Lotr, but it's once again it's your decision.

I don't believe anything I said runs contrary to that. I'm merely suggesting the possibility that Galactic might find making his own films more enjoyable than remaking someone else's.

I think you should start with lotr and then twist it a bit to fit your film style, so that way you can avoid squashes point. I mean at some point we've all probably had ideas on how to make the film better right? Here's your chance to do just that.

I was, at one point, right where you are: working on a LEGO LOTR film. But, even after writing over 70 pages of screenplay, I thought to myself, "Wait, what? This is crazy. I'm crazy!" When I did a read-through of the screenplay, it timed in at about an hour and a half. I couldn't do this on my own! I kinda put it off, maybe for a few years.

You've got a great ambition, but trying to recreate a three-hour live-action fantasy-fiction blockbuster with LEGO bricks is insane. I'd agree with Squash over here. For a beginner brickfilmer like you, to do something like this is kind of outrageous. I'm also gonna kind of reiterrate what the King of Bricks said; try your hand at making a shorter LEGO LOTR adventure. Not some unfunny spoof of the movies, but just...something that isn't three hours long.

A three-hour brickfilm is something un-heard of. But, it's not something impossible. You can pursue this idea of yours if you want. But, even if you don't, a three-hour-long brickfilm is an ambition that somebody somewhere will achieve some day.

P.S. When you make this LEGO LOTR film, don't just accord to the film trilogy. The books are there too, and Tolkien has some stuff that might be useful when making a Lord of the Rings brickfilm. I would look through some of the notes and, overall, read the books. I mean, if I were to make a LEGO LOTR film--which I actually tried to do--I would base it on the books, not the films.

Good luck on this idea!

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I have been brick filming for years. And using Blender will move the project along faster. I love LEGOs I love The Lord of the Rings and to see these two great worlds collide, and for me to be a part of it, would be awesome.

Please Note: This film will be based on the THEACTTRACUL version of The Fellowship of the Ring NOT the Extended Edition. Which means this video will be about 2 hours and 56 minutes.