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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 fsloth »

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…

Apollo program cost $200 billion. Still few orders of magnitdude to go. Manhattan $23 billion so closer. $2 billion is not that much in corporate world (sure, for me as an individual it is) - given a mediums sized mobile game studio can generate that amount of revenue in a year.

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

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?

I thought the Hobbit films sucked horribly but I'm still glad we have more LotR. It's funny how the biggest "fans" seem to strongly shun having more material.

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Post by globular-toast »

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 great for many reasons, but when it comes to story His Dark Materials is better. It's a real shame they messed up the movie for that one.

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Post by eCa »

olivierestsage wrote: post #42
ForrestN wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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, mayb…

I agree that LotR is not a straightforward allegory, but I'm also going off more than the author's religious identity. In Tolkien's words: "The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like "religion", to cults or practices, in the Imagin…

I think that's an interesting point, that a book can both be a religious work but at the same time not contain anything overtly religious.

As a non-believer, I quite enjoy the lack of anything overtly religious in his works.

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Post by celebrimbor7 »

larusso wrote: post #30
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?

My understanding was that they shoot a series about Aragorn or? The world of Middleearth spans multiple thousand years. Check out the Silmarillion which tells most of the creation story and more. The Story about the Ring which only spans about 80 years if you count the hobbit is a very small part of this world. There is a lot of untold parts that would be worth telling. I would like to see the story of Númenor and it…

The Amazon series is about Numenor

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Post by detaro »

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…

Apollo project was 20-something billion in 60s/70s dollars, equivalent to 150-200 billion now.

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Post by larusso »

celebrimbor7 wrote: post #57
larusso wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding was that they shoot a series about Aragorn or? The world of Middleearth spans multiple thousand years. Check out the Silmarillion which tells most of the creation story and more. The Story about the Ring which only spans about 80 years if you count the hobbit is a very small part of this world. There is a lot of untold parts that would be worth telling. I would like to see the story of Númenor and it…

The Amazon series is about Numenor

Perfect then :)

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Post by globular-toast »

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?

Well, yes... that is the 21st century way so far. Spider-man has been done 3 times already in 20 years. You can bet they're already planning the reboot of the entire series of Marvel films. You have to look hard to find anything original these days. But there are some if you'd like some recommendations?
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