From Deadline.com:
In its quest to launch a hit fantasy series of the caliber of Game of Thrones, Amazon has closed a massive deal, said to be close to $250 million, to acquire the global TV rights to The Lord of the Rings, based on the fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. The streaming service has given a multi-season commitment to a LOTR series in the pact, which also includes a potential spin-off series.
The LOTR original series, a prequel to Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, will be produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which produced the hugely successful LOTR movie franchise.
No details about the deal were disclosed but it believed to be dwarfing any TV series pact to date with a whopping price tag attached.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 15 2017, @03:35AM (1 child)
The books are inferior! They didn't even have cell phones and neither did the author! What savages!
More hot nympho elves!!!
TV adaptation in theory should allow for a more faithful retelling since a TV season is typically somewhere around 12-25 hours and the Jackson trilogy was around 9 (maybe a bit more after director's cuts).
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday November 15 2017, @05:03AM
so.. just *how many* of the battle scenes do you need to watch?
LOTR was a boy's own adventure, with no girl-germs to mess it up. 12-15 hours of tv with boys camping, not washing and occasionally being slightly sensible, with a battle every one or two episodes would mean no one would even notice if it were played out of order!
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