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

Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by prepend on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:00AM (#31987145)

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...

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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by Emma_Goldman on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:36PM (#31990437)

>"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."

This - the fact that this is an Amazon production already tells us a great deal about what to expect.

I have a low expectations for TV, but the Amazon catalogue has really plumbed new depths. It is an artistic wasteland. Just reading the title of this thread I therefore thought, 'How is this going to work out?' If you add to that the concerns of the OP, it does not look good.

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