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 chaostheory on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @02:25PM (#31991881)

Agree with Jackson being terrible to even have on for consulting due to what he did to The Hobbit. I wasn’t happy with what he did with some key scenes in LOTR either. I feel the main reason he was left out though is because there might be animosity between him and the Tolkien family in terms of art direction.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by manmal on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:53PM (#31994210)

The Hobbit production was so heavily rushed, I wouldn’t hold the quality issues against Jackson.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by chaostheory on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:33PM (#31995811)

The story was butchered. In his defense it makes sense from the box office perspective. The masses need excitement and spectacle. The original Hobbit story doesn’t have that. It’s more low key.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by tptacek on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:39PM (#31996124)

I felt (maybe without justification) that LOTR shoplifted a lot from the Bakshi LOTR. Which makes what happened with The Hobbit even weirder, because people already managed to adapt it reasonably well for the screen; you wouldn't think "much worse than Rankin-Bass Hobbit" was a likely outcome for the money spent.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by chaostheory on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:54AM (#31997252)

It makes more sense when you see the box office numbers which is around $3 billion world wide for all three movies. Ideally, The Hobbit is a single streaming feature movie, but Hollywood rightfully saw an opportunity for another “LOTR”.

I don’t remember where I read it, but the Tolkien clan was not a fan of either movie trilogy.

[ Parent | on HN ]