Let's hope they won't turn it into a diversity thing checking all the boxes and loosing the plot
Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
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Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
#42After Wheel of Time my expectations are so incredibly low, if it still manages to disappoint I will be impressed.
I'm expecting a shitshow and a shitstorm of epic proportions.
Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Keep in mind that Amazon needs to get only ~0.2M incremental Amazon Prime subscribers to recoup the investment. The lifetime value (LTV) of a Prime subscriber has been estimated at ~$2,300.[a] You can play around with the figure, but given that every LOTR fan is going to want to watch this series even if it sucks , I wouldn't be surprised is Amazon ends up getting far more than ~0.2M new Prime subscribers because of…
> but given that every LOTR fan is going to want to watch this series even if it sucks Citation needed. I'm a big fan of LOTR, but I didn't even bother with the last Hobbit movie. And I expect this series to be even worse than that.
Come on, it's really unlikely this show will be worse than the Hobbit movie.
Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
#44Tangential — I wish they or someone else serializes Dune. It’s so tailor made for a tv series.
Also looking forward to Three Body Problem from nflx
Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
#45I’m not so sure the LOTR series is ideal for expansion. It feels like Peter Jackson has already tackled all the really interesting parts of the LOTR world.
> It feels like Peter Jackson has already tackled all the really interesting parts of the LOTR world.
I would say Hobbit is about the least suited part of the universe for adoption. There are far better stories.
Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
#46Obviously, I’ll wait and see once it comes out. But it seems odd to spend so much and not have a single established creator that has put out great content. And not to involve Jackson seems off because even having him in a consulting role would be a good sign. Looking at the imdb page this seems like a corporate driven project rather than a creator driven project with lots of different directors that haven’t don’t any…
As a huge ASOIAF fan, I had the same concerns after Game of Thrones was announced and first details were shared. The crucial difference, though, is that GRRM himself was involved in the series.
And we all know how it ended once they ran out of his material. Yes, I'm still salty.
Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
#47Obviously, I’ll wait and see once it comes out. But it seems odd to spend so much and not have a single established creator that has put out great content. And not to involve Jackson seems off because even having him in a consulting role would be a good sign. Looking at the imdb page this seems like a corporate driven project rather than a creator driven project with lots of different directors that haven’t don’t any…
As a huge ASOIAF fan, I had the same concerns after Game of Thrones was announced and first details were shared. The crucial difference, though, is that GRRM himself was involved in the series.
Sean Bean wasn't an unknown. He wasn't a star either, but he was the villain in one of better Bond movies and also was in the first Lord of the Rings.
Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
#48After Wheel of Time my expectations are so incredibly low, if it still manages to disappoint I will be impressed. I'm expecting a shitshow and a shitstorm of epic proportions.
I'm expecting a 465 million dollar joke about the ease of delivering products to Mordor using Amazon's infrastructure. If not in live action then at least as an advertising campaign based in supporting material.
Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
#49Obviously, I’ll wait and see once it comes out. But it seems odd to spend so much and not have a single established creator that has put out great content. And not to involve Jackson seems off because even having him in a consulting role would be a good sign. Looking at the imdb page this seems like a corporate driven project rather than a creator driven project with lots of different directors that haven’t don’t any…
Speculatively, is there some tax optimization purpose? Eg, if you invest in content that builds technology that could be used for other purposes? Amazon is pretty amazing at tax optimization. But R&D tax writeoffs are pretty great, so not sure what it would accomplish.
hmm, so maybe this is just cover for the UFO skunkworks.
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