Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) Lord of the Rings
We already know that Amazon bought a new Lord of the Rings series for a quarter-billion dollars. We also know that the production itself will end up costing a cool $1 billion.
The first season won't be all about Hobbits and orcs, though—it will definitely be about Aragorn, aka Strider, played by Viggo Mortensen in the movies.
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A Rings fan account learned of the details and reported that the series won't be a re-tread of the movies. It will draw from the massive pile of notes that Tolkien put together in writing the books and cover a great deal of back story.
For anyone who never read the books, liked the movies, but found themselves confused sometimes, it seems like the Amazon show will end up connecting some loose ends.
Will actors from the movies be back? That depends—in similar situations, showrunners sometimes want to have a kind of clean slate so the series will have its own identity.
One thing we know for sure, with a billion dollars behind it, this show will have production values light years beyond just about anything else.
National_Marxist on June 4th, 2018 at 07:13 UTC »
Is Jeff Bezos going to play Sauron?
Kholdstare101 on June 4th, 2018 at 02:44 UTC »
That is a lot of fuckin show.
-GregTheGreat- on June 4th, 2018 at 00:35 UTC »
Assuming the show has 10-15 episode seasons, that comes out to 13.5-20 million dollars budget per episode. To put that in perspective, GoT’s Battle of Blackwater episode only cost 8 million total. That’s insane.