Is Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy darker than Star Wars?

If someone asked me right after the Lord of the Rings films were released if Peter Jackson should direct a Star Wars films, I'd give an enthusiastic “yes. read more

I’d say Star Wars has some isolated scenes that are darker than anything in the LotR movies (Anakin’s fate on Mustafar, the death of all the heroes in Rogue One), but the overall tone is more consistently “serious” in LotR than in Star Wars. read more

Before Peter Jackson’s films would inspire the more recent installments of Star Wars, George Lucas certainly took inspiration from Tolkien’s work in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In early drafts of the Star Wars screenplay, Luke even has a line of dialogue lifted directly from the books, thought it never made it to the final film. read more