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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series reportedly to cost $500 million
Entertaiinment ^ | 03/19/18 | James Hibberd

Posted on 03/21/2018 7:50:31 AM PDT by Simon Green

And you thought Game of Thrones looked expensive.

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel will cost the company an estimated $500 million, according to Reuters.

The rights alone to a piece of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy franchise apparently cost the company $250 million. Amazon has made a deal for two seasons, and the production and marketing costs for both should total around another $250 million. This would make the LOTR project easily the most expensive TV series ever made.

In fact, it’s more than it cost Peter Jackson to make all three movies in his Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy, at least, before their marketing costs (according to Box Office Mojo).

And the Amazon drama will have the additional challenge — some might say benefit — of not being a reboot of the familiar tale of Frodo and the One Ring. Instead, the Amazon project will be a prequel series based on Tolkien’s works with an as-yet-unreleased story line.

By comparison, HBO spends about $15 million per episode on GoT at this point — probably a bit more for the upcoming final season — plus marketing costs.

Last fall, former Amazon Studios head Roy Price declared the company was gunning for its own GoT: “I do think Game of Thrones is to TV as Jaws and Star Wars was to the movies of the 1970s. It’ll inspire a lot of people. Everybody wants a big hit and certainly that’s the show of the moment in terms of being a model for a hit.”


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To: MNJohnnie

Yep, that was my thought exactly — start on Numenor with the capture of Sauron and the corruption of men. It would have the dark feel and rich storyline that made GoT so popular. You could see the first two seasons take you through the Last Alliance.


41 posted on 03/21/2018 8:26:39 AM PDT by AnglePark
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To: mewzilla
I'm not the only one who thinks it's nuts. And now I'm really wondering WTH Amazon is doing....

‘Lord Of The Rings’ TV Series Shopped With Huge Rights Payment Attached

42 posted on 03/21/2018 8:29:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Puppage
When is it going to be available?

Late 2019 at the earliest.

43 posted on 03/21/2018 8:30:32 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: camle

Yes, it has to be the Silmarillion, unless they are just going to get some writers to make up a story that happens just before the Hobbit.


44 posted on 03/21/2018 8:30:42 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Simon Green

Thank you.


45 posted on 03/21/2018 8:33:35 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say)
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To: Simon Green

In Japan there have been things called OAVs for 30+ years (original animation videos) that neither screened theatrically or on tv.


46 posted on 03/21/2018 8:34:42 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: Red Badger
Don’t believe in wizards, dragons, magic and the like.

Against my religion..................

I don't believe in them either. Nor do I believe in Darth Vader, or The Force. It's called fantasy. That'w what makes it fun.

47 posted on 03/21/2018 8:35:06 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: StAnDeliver

Thor and Captain America already got 3 movies. Iron Man only had 3, and he was more popular, so they are probably done with those series anyway.

Spider-man will definitely get 2 more movies. The first was a hit, and he’s more bankable than Iron Man for sure. There’s going to be a Guardians 3 for sure as well, and Ant-Man 2 is already ready to drop.


48 posted on 03/21/2018 8:35:14 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Simon Green

Haven’t watched any Star Wars movies since the 1st one in 1977....................


49 posted on 03/21/2018 8:37:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Oh good, I’m not the only one who thought The Hobbit films were awful.


50 posted on 03/21/2018 8:50:09 AM PDT by DallasGal (When your honor, integrity and trustworthiness are gone, you are nothing.)
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To: Red Badger
Haven’t watched any Star Wars movies since the 1st one in 1977....................

The one that changed it all. It's now the Golden Age of science fiction and fantasy films. 90% of the top 20 films of 2017 were fantasy or science fiction of some sort.

51 posted on 03/21/2018 8:52:27 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: DallasGal
Oh good, I’m not the only one who thought The Hobbit films were awful.

About half of the first film was good (meeting the dwarves and the Gollum sequence). A bit of #2 was good (Bilbo & Smaug).

The rest was dreadful.

52 posted on 03/21/2018 8:55:01 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: VanDeKoik

Haha! Good one.


53 posted on 03/21/2018 8:57:15 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Simon Green
Prediction #1: hardcore fans of Tolkien's books are probably going to hate whatever butchery is presented.

Prediction #2: Amazon won't have the guts to do material from The Silmarillion, but will simply extrapolate prequel stories about Aragorn, Arwen, Saruman et al. from the main LOTR text and appendix.

Prediction #3: Tolkien's surviving children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren will laugh all the way to the bank.
54 posted on 03/21/2018 9:00:09 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: ClearCase_guy; Constitution Day

Hobbits died on FR. Haven’t seen a post on a Hobbit Hole thread come across the board in 10 years.

The all time greatest FR Hobbit thread is this one:

Thermobaric Bomb Destroys Hobbit Hole
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/639647/posts


55 posted on 03/21/2018 9:02:07 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: Simon Green

Gosh, what a bunch of bitzchy old people on this thread.

Here’s a life tip: Don’t like the idea? Don’t watch it.

Easy peasy.


56 posted on 03/21/2018 9:02:17 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Simon Green

Yawn.


57 posted on 03/21/2018 9:04:51 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: redhead
The Sylmarillion,perhaps? That would be awesome!

Songs and poems! Yay!

58 posted on 03/21/2018 9:07:19 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Gosh, what a bunch of bitzchy old people on this thread.

These dang kids, watching their Star Wars and Lord of the Rings! Back in my day, all we had was Buster Crabbe in Buck Rogers on a shoestring budget...and we were glad to have it!


59 posted on 03/21/2018 9:10:50 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: a fool in paradise

“It isn’t a tv proggram because they are not a tv network.”

It will be on Amazon TV and shown in one hour segments. That’s TV. It’s a miniseries. That’s TV.


60 posted on 03/21/2018 9:12:10 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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