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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

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Post by prepend »

cgeier wrote: post #29
prepend wrote: post #18

Obviously, 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…

While I'm not particularly looking forward to this series, having rather unknown actors isn't putting me off at all. And why shouldn't they go with directors they are happy with? TV series often have a lot of different directors, often directing just a single episode of a season or even a series.

I think that them going with directors they are happy with is precisely the problem. Amazon has cranked out a lot of mediocre tv shows that don’t have any significant greatness. What’s strange about these directors is that they haven’t directed anything I thought was good at all.

The writers have uncredited writing credits on Flash Gordon and Star Trek Beyond [0]. I like those but it’s just strange that that’s all they have. Like that’s it. Not even a complete screenplay.

I’d love to read the story of how they assembled this team that is free of PR.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?role=nm4260438&job_type=wri...

Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

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Post by workingon »

cloutchaser wrote: post #63
prepend wrote: post #18

Obviously, 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…

LOTR, and also Peter Jackson are not compatible with modern media. LOTR is completely opposed storytelling wise to the current dogmas of postmodernism and equity, it's fundamentally a story based on old western/european/christian myths, basically what gets called white supremacy these days. I think this will turn out to be an absolute morbid tv series as it will force LOTR into the current dogmas, but this is probabl…

Never thought I’d live to see the day where people would unironically call equity dogma. But here we are. What a sad state of affairs.

Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

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Post by both_cucumbers »

anshumankmr wrote: post #2

Even with the rebate, how can they hope to recoup the investment? Merch? DVD Sales? Increasing sign ups to Prime? I have a doubt the profits from that will help them earn money to cover up the remaining 300 million or so they have still invested. And the "internet" really reacted negatively to the trailer as well. (I personally didn't hate the trailer myself but after having watched the original trilogy and the first…

Amazon Prime customers spend $1968 / year on average.

$465M / $1968 = 236,280

For perspective, Disney Plus added 7.9 million users in just the first quarter of 2022.

Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

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Post by chrisseaton »

glanzwulf wrote: post #66

Considering there's not a single relevant main stream actor, director or writer on the team. I don't understand where they're spending the money on. Can't wait to see it, but my expectations cannot go lower

There’s talent out there beyond celebrities and movie stars.

Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

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Post by Sebb767 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #68
Sebb767 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And we all know how it ended once they ran out of his material. Yes, I'm still salty.

I never even bothered with Season 8.

And you'll be happier if you keep it that way :-) The only worse ending I know is that of How I Met Your Mother. Just skip the last two episodes there, seriously.

Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

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Post by madaxe_again »

Man, half a billion dollars on an entertainment product - that money could be poured into something useful, like space.

We shouldn’t be spending money on earthly delights until we’ve fixed all the problems in space. What practical applications have hobbits given us, anyway?

Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

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Post by emptyfile »

Considering how awful the Hobbit movies were I can't see how this could be worse.

In any case, after the horror that was Wheel of Time, I'm not watching any Amazon fantasy shows unless they get glowing reviews (from real critics, not tech news commentators).

Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

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Post by cloutchaser »

workingon wrote: post #72
cloutchaser wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LOTR, and also Peter Jackson are not compatible with modern media. LOTR is completely opposed storytelling wise to the current dogmas of postmodernism and equity, it's fundamentally a story based on old western/european/christian myths, basically what gets called white supremacy these days. I think this will turn out to be an absolute morbid tv series as it will force LOTR into the current dogmas, but this is probabl…

Never thought I’d live to see the day where people would unironically call equity dogma. But here we are. What a sad state of affairs.

Equity means equality of outcome, basically meaning you believe every person is equal in their results.

This is religious dogma, because it's just not true. We are not the same, and you will always have differences in outcome in society.

If you cannot see this, you are trapped in religious level dogmatic thinking.

(PS: if you want to talk about equality, which we might perhaps call equality of opportunity, I'm all for it. But equity is certainly not that).

Re: Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

anshumankmr wrote: post #54
d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #44

Tangential — 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

>I wish they or someone else serializes Dune https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/

That (and the follow-on) weren't too bad. Much better than Lynch's treatment.

I must say, though, that I'm looking forward to part 2 of Villeneuve's Dune.

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