Amazon’s LORD OF THE RINGS Series Might be the Most Expensive TV Show Ever | Nerdist
Every network wants their own Game of Thrones, which is why Amazon will be venturing to Middle Earth with a Lord of the Rings TV series. While it remains to be seen if it will achieve the massive level of success HBO’s hit show has, it looks like there’s one way in which it will outdo its fantasy co…
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(Originally posted 2017-11-16 20:25:39)
Charlie Fuller
I’ll watch it.
While we’re talking I’d like to see a faithful adaptation of Anne Rice’s Vampire books.
I want to see more sci-fi! If you want a seriously epic new GoT then do webers safehold series. That would be intense.
If it stays faithful to the novel I’ll watch it
I’ll watch it until they move away from TOLKIEN’s world into Peter Jackson’s or whoever changes the script. Stay with Tolkien’s format (including background!!!) and I’ll stay with the show.
Great Sci/fantasy TV shows stay alive when they keep production costs down. This will be gone after one season unless they employee all unknown talent.
How about epic fantasy for adults, say, Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever series?
The movies were fantastic why do they need to reboot them? Get some fresh ideas. Miles Cameron’s fantasy saga of The Red Knight would be a better alternative. Or for sci-fi The Red Rising series about Mars is fantastic!
Bryan Base Bedore
And it’s TOTALLY UNNECESSARY!!
We have the books…
We have the movies which, while they were good, didn’t stay ‘faithful’ to the books in some important areas.
…..and now we have a TV series being proposed/created.
Whichever way you look at it, even though they claim that it will be ‘the most expensive series ever’ the budget will still be lower than for the films…..I can see some ‘artistic compromises’ occurring. There is no way they can do this properly.
I know writers are stuggling with new ideas these days and theres been a massive shift toward series for obvious reasons but ffs, leave it a while. Revisit it further down the line when ideas and adaptions and re-adaptions well and truley start to dry up.
Keiron Jack Cairns
Oh god why?
More expensive than GOT or Sense8? So one or two seasons with 8 episodes?
Tolkien is spinning in his grave.
Good, now shut the f^*k up about it til it’s about to come on!
Gonna be cancelled in the first Season then.
Great! We can watch people walk and walk and walk week after week after week.
Disappointing efforts except for the BBC Radio Four version of 1981 which kept to the book perfectly. Won’t watch it. Probably CGI infested crap.