Radio Theatre doing Lord of the Rings

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Radio Theatre doing Lord of the Rings

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I noticed that Radio Theatre's new Christmas collection has John Ryhs-Davies as one of the voice actors. Maybe if it is possible maybe Focus on the Family can get all of the actors from the movies (except for Sir Ian McKellean, ugh talk about an unholy alliance) to do Lord of the Rings. A good replacement for Sir Ian would be Christopher Lee, he had J.R.R. Tolkien's permission to play Gandalf when the time came. He would have played Gandalf except he considered himself too old to do all of the athletic things he would have to do as Gandalf.
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To bad RT is ending production... :(
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Eon Spitfire EK V2.exe wrote:To bad RT is ending production... :(
Says who?

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Says FOTF. I first learned of it from one of my other message boards. I called FOTF and the lady I spoke to said that RT was cancelled because of money, it was too expensive. The final Father Gilbert is coming out in January and they are re releasing the Luke Reports in the spring, but there are going to be no new productions. Radio Theatre will cease airing December 31, 2005. You won't even be able to listen at OnePlace.
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We discussed it in this thread:

http://thetoo.com/viewtopic.php?t=4076

Like Laurie said, Focus on the Family will continue supporting their products through book stores and new packages for existing releases, but new productions will not air and radio stations will stop airing the shows :(.
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That's such a bummer that they have to stop. I really enjoy listening to radio theatre. It's just another good radio to listen to. I wish they could keep airing them on Oneplace.
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Durbelethwen wrote:I noticed that Radio Theatre's new Christmas collection has John Ryhs-Davies as one of the voice actors. Maybe if it is possible maybe Focus on the Family can get all of the actors from the movies (except for Sir Ian McKellean, ugh talk about an unholy alliance) to do Lord of the Rings. A good replacement for Sir Ian would be Christopher Lee, he had J.R.R. Tolkien's permission to play Gandalf when the time came. He would have played Gandalf except he considered himself too old to do all of the athletic things he would have to do as Gandalf.
NPR and the BBC have already done radio productions of LoTR.
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Post by Elf of Rivendell »

Yes...they really should produce one, if they weren't stopping production. >_< Hmph...we, the citizens of Odyssey, should carry on their legacy, that's what I say. (Of course, we'd all have to learn voice acting/music composing/creating sound effects skills very quickly...)
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Oh, Lord of the Rings would be great! Too bad they're ending....... :(
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I don't understand. Why not simply limit the number of shows made instead of cancelling everything? Was the product not succesful?

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The BC wrote:I don't understand. Why not simply limit the number of shows made instead of cancelling everything? Was the product not succesful?

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I don't know if the product was successful or not, as I said in my earlier posts the reason the lady gave me was money. I gather that production was the biggest expense. I can see that, most of the shows were recorded in England, so that means that they have to fly eveyone over there. The actors are always well known, if not in the U.S. then they are well known in England. I won't even begin to guess what airfare to England and hotel costs run. I was going through my RT collection last night and the only one that was not recorded in England was Anne of Green Gables. If you want to try and find out more call FOTF.
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The BC wrote:I don't understand. Why not simply limit the number of shows made instead of cancelling everything? Was the product not succesful?

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Also you have to take into consideration the royalty fees that some of the stories might have. Particularly that of the Chronicles of Narnia. That was pretty ambitious and I don't know what the stipulations are when anyone decides they're going to do those books because I know you have to get permission from the family before you can do anything and the copyright hasn't run out on it , so the story isn't in the public domain yet. I would gather that there are huge royalty fees associated to that. I mean when they rebroadcasted the series they still had to get permission from the family.

If Focus was going to do LoTR they would have to get permission from whomever because the copyright on that story hasn't run out. I'm not exactly sure who owns the rights to LoTR because Tolkien sold, at least, the movie rights.
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And not only would they have to get the copyright, but I believe that the Tolkien Estate would have to approve.
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If RT wasn't bankrupt before, they would be after pursuing this...
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STRYPER wrote:If RT wasn't bankrupt before, they would be after pursuing this...
That is another very good reason for RT not doing it.
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Post by Bennett »

Hmm. Heres another question;

So, what will the Crew do now that they're gone from Focus on the Family Radio Theatre? Will Paul McCausker and Dave Arnold return to Odyssey, perhaps? Personally, I doubt it, however, theres always a possibility that it could happen. :-k

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And Mark Drury!!!

I've actually worked on a production with Mark Drury!!

I went 2 whole days of working with him calling him "Mark" and then as we were breaking down it hit me. This guy works for FOTF, is called Mark and looks a lot like Mark Drury!!! I told him I loved AIO and all he said was "Great!!!"

Oh well, I haven't seen him since :(
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Paul McCusker is still one of the Vice Presidents of Focus on the Family and doesn't really have much time for the show as it is.

Dave Arnold has been the executive producer of Adventures in Odyssey for nearly a year, so he's already pretty involved with the series and I imagine that will continue.

Mark Drury hasn't been with Focus on the Family for at least two years... so I don't expect him to return now ;).
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Shadowpaw wrote:Paul McCusker is still one of the Vice Presidents of Focus on the Family and doesn't really have much time for the show as it is.
Yes, but I imagine he still will be wanting to write Radio Dramas of a sort, either in his spare time. I mean, he was actively involved in Radio Theatre (to an extent, I suppose), and still made a least a little time for Odyssey. Now that Radio theatre will be concluding, I imagine their must be a little more time spent with Odyssey--at least on occasion, and at least much more than before.

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