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

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Post by Sharlin »

assface wrote: post #29
olivierestsage wrote: post #12

Although I suspect this will not be a popular comment, I hope the Amazon series will remain faithful to the Catholic/Christian sense that Tolkien deliberately infused into these novels. Peter Jackson did a notably good job with that, all things considered. To be clear, I don't think that you should have to be a Christian to like Lord of the Rings -- quite the contrary. But given the lack of compelling Christian art i…

> the lack of compelling Christian art in general the past 50 or 60 years What about all those Mel Gibson movies that you guys have?

I guess the key word is ”compelling”.

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Post by gwern »

It's staggering to think that this TV show might cost well over $2 billion. We are approaching numbers typically used only of events like the Manhattan Project or Apollo.

Considering that movies and shows still get made about those and the apparently exponential growth of budgets, it seems likely that at some point, there will have been more money spent cumulatively on shows about the MP or Apollo than on the actual historical event. And at some point afterwards, there will be more spent on a single show about them than the actual event.

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Post by Glide »

yuppie_scum wrote: post #28
runawaybottle wrote: post #21

The budget for the first three movies in total was 281 million. They filmed on location and had pretty good CGI, minus a few scenes that would look better today. Why are costs going up here? Tech is commoditized easily (ease of use and availability of talent), so I expect CG work to have gotten better and cheaper.

There’s been a lot of inflation in the past 20 years.

That moment when you realize how long ago LoTR trilogy was....

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Post by jeffwass »

t-writescode wrote: post #16

Is this what we do now? Remake things that are still in the majority of our living memories? Have the original LOTR movies stopped holding up? Are we playing the long game and intending to have an Into The Smiegalverse?

The old Hobbit and LotR cartoons were released in 1977 and 1978 respectively.

So Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring came out in 2001, 23 years after the cartoon, and this version is a further 21 years (assuming a 2022 release) after Jackson’s version, a similar time span.

And damn, this makes me feel old.

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Post by swarnie_ »

SilasX wrote: post #23
olivierestsage wrote: post #12

Although I suspect this will not be a popular comment, I hope the Amazon series will remain faithful to the Catholic/Christian sense that Tolkien deliberately infused into these novels. Peter Jackson did a notably good job with that, all things considered. To be clear, I don't think that you should have to be a Christian to like Lord of the Rings -- quite the contrary. But given the lack of compelling Christian art i…

Well, I have some bad news. It’s looking like they’re going to ape Game of Thrones, nudity and all. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/lor...

Great, that seems more compelling then 2000 year old Palestinian fairy tales.

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Post by meroes »

gotoeleven wrote: post #13

I'm excited to see how a fantasy story about magic and elves can be used as a vehicle to teach me about white supremacy and transgenderism.

That's what Harry Potter is for

LotR is to teach you Christian God likes certain people better and makes them win and there really isn't free will

I really think those are loosly the overarching lessons of the two works. Hamfisted but enjoyable. And beneficial to society but still hamfisted.

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Post by lumost »

gwern wrote: post #33

It's staggering to think that this TV show might cost well over $2 billion. We are approaching numbers typically used only of events like the Manhattan Project or Apollo. Considering that movies and shows still get made about those and the apparently exponential growth of budgets, it seems likely that at some point, there will have been more money spent cumulatively on shows about the MP or Apollo than on the actual…

If more money is spent making a show about Apollo than the actual Apollo missions - why not film them on location?

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Post by ForrestN »

olivierestsage wrote: post #12

Although I suspect this will not be a popular comment, I hope the Amazon series will remain faithful to the Catholic/Christian sense that Tolkien deliberately infused into these novels. Peter Jackson did a notably good job with that, all things considered. To be clear, I don't think that you should have to be a Christian to like Lord of the Rings -- quite the contrary. But given the lack of compelling Christian art i…

I’m not sure we can ascribe religious purpose to works that borrow from popular stories that happen to be religious. The books/movies are also profoundly pagan, and lay out their own religious system for eg the elves which is not especially Christian. As I understand it there is a whole pantheon of god-like figures in the LOTR universe.

If the author says it’s not an allegory, and it doesn’t work as an allegory, maybe their identifying as Christian isn’t enough to make it an allegory?

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Post by j4yav »

CryptoPunk wrote: post #17
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 in many places unexceptional, but I think the parts that stand out, particularly the themes of duty and camaradarie, like Frodo's personal struggle to resist the ring's effects, and Sam's love for Frodo, make it a seminal work. The moral fiber of Tolkien shines through in passages like this: Frodo: 'What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature when he had a chance!' 'Pity? It was Pity t…

So true. It is really a shame they are going down the sex and nudity route to make it more like Game of Thrones.
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