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See, that is a problem every filmmaker will have to overcome. The source material and its fame. If they are, say, 80-85% faithful to the core stuff, it just would not be their vehicle, will it?
A good filmmaker will take the source into consideration, maybe do a 50% adaptation of it, but he will always add his sugar into the content. No matter how much close he comes to adapting the real source/inspiration/work, he has to have some part of the finished product for himself.
We still call it Kubrick's Shining, Jackson's LOTR, Lynch's Dune, Darabont's Shawshank Redemption, etc. (even Chris Nolan's Dark Knight, not Bob Kane's)
And I am sure by the end of it, we will call it Del Toro's Hobbit, not Tolkien's.
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