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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by prepend on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:05AM (#31987182)
D&D had written a lot of movies (25th hour, troy, kite runner, wolverine, brothers) and there were some “known actors” (Lena heady, Peter Dinklage, aiden gillan, Charles dance, Sean bean).

And I think the biggest problem with game of thrones is that the show runners crapped out after GRRM ran out of material. So I would want a better runner for Tolkien.

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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by hef19898 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:07AM (#31987748)
I just hope they have the overall story arc figured before filming, something Babylon 5 nailed down to a t back the day even if I think DS9 aged better for re-watching purposes. If they did not, or even worse stop following a consistent inner-world logic and rules (or not establishing one in the first place), the LotR series might just end as GoT or TWD... Which would really be a damn pity
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