Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series will cost at least $465M for first season

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Post by TangerineDream » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 2:40 PM UTC

Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series will cost at least $465M for first season
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Post by amelius » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 2:56 PM UTC

Curious if I'm the only one here who thinks that LotR is overrated. Let them spend the money on a better story.

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Post by adflux » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 2:57 PM UTC

I am very curious to see how strongly the amount of money spent will correlate with the quality of this series.

Pretty cool that they are doing a lot of work in New Zealand again. The LOTR really started a revolution in terms of movie production there. If you're really into LOTR or into movie making, I recommend watching (some of) the LOTR appendices. They go into great detail in as to how they produced the original trilogy.

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Post by adrianN » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 2:59 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #2

Curious if I'm the only one here who thinks that LotR is overrated. Let them spend the money on a better story.

Lord of the Rings is a brilliant story, but I'd strongly prefer new material over another adaption.

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Post by rightbyte » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 3:01 PM UTC

adflux wrote: post #3

I am very curious to see how strongly the amount of money spent will correlate with the quality of this series. Pretty cool that they are doing a lot of work in New Zealand again. The LOTR really started a revolution in terms of movie production there. If you're really into LOTR or into movie making, I recommend watching (some of) the LOTR appendices. They go into great detail in as to how they produced the original…

Compare the Hobbit and Lotr movies. Simple things as having CGI orcs will mess up the feeling. It is not about money mainly.

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Post by kzrdude » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 3:03 PM UTC

rightbyte wrote: post #5

adflux wrote: post #3

I am very curious to see how strongly the amount of money spent will correlate with the quality of this series. Pretty cool that they are doing a lot of work in New Zealand again. The LOTR really started a revolution in terms of movie production there. If you're really into LOTR or into movie making, I recommend watching (some of) the LOTR appendices. They go into great detail in as to how they produced the original…

Compare the Hobbit and Lotr movies. Simple things as having CGI orcs will mess up the feeling. It is not about money mainly.

I get the impression that LotR was a project Peter Jackson had a lot of passion for, and the Hobbit wasn't, really.

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Post by radicalbyte » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 3:04 PM UTC

adrianN wrote: post #4

amelius wrote: post #2

Curious if I'm the only one here who thinks that LotR is overrated. Let them spend the money on a better story.

Lord of the Rings is a brilliant story, but I'd strongly prefer new material over another adaption.

Their series is a new series, it's based on stories from The Silmarillion and the large series published by Christopher Tolkien.

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Post by DangitBobby » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 3:06 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #2

Curious if I'm the only one here who thinks that LotR is overrated. Let them spend the money on a better story.

I was never able to read all the way through the books myself; they were much too dry for my taste. I did quite enjoy The Hobbit though, and I think the LotR movies are fantastic. It's an excellent cinematic universe, IMO. There is so much there to build a story upon.

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Post by mehlmao » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 3:06 PM UTC

kzrdude wrote: post #6

rightbyte wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compare the Hobbit and Lotr movies. Simple things as having CGI orcs will mess up the feeling. It is not about money mainly.

I get the impression that LotR was a project Peter Jackson had a lot of passion for, and the Hobbit wasn't, really.

My understanding is that he directed the Hobbit movies after Guillermo del Toro was removed, and the studio wanted him to start filming immediately. Fellowship had tons of pre-production time, The Hobbit movies had virtually none.

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Post by humanlion87 » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 3:06 PM UTC

adrianN wrote: post #4

amelius wrote: post #2

Curious if I'm the only one here who thinks that LotR is overrated. Let them spend the money on a better story.

Lord of the Rings is a brilliant story, but I'd strongly prefer new material over another adaption.

This series is supposed to be set during the time of Morgoth. So the story is going to be completely different from LotR. I think they are just using the name as a stop gap (and maybe for PR) until they officially name the series.