Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring...
by prepend on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:59PM
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> assumption - that the top talent pool largely begins and ends with the best known actors.
I don’t think anyone is making this assumption, and certainly not me.
What I’m saying is that in a show with such a big budget, not a single actor is well known or even decently known. That’s unusual and not a good sign. It’s possible that this show is unique in that it has all great actors and is not paying a ton for them. Certainly it’s possible.
But try to think of another show with even a moderate budget that was awesome with an entire cast of “unknowns.”
There are some movies, Kids comes to mind with a new director, writer, and stars like a then unknown Rosario Dawson and Chloe Sevingny. But that budget was like $400k and I think if they had had $40M they would have had different actors.
I don’t think anyone is making this assumption, and certainly not me.
What I’m saying is that in a show with such a big budget, not a single actor is well known or even decently known. That’s unusual and not a good sign. It’s possible that this show is unique in that it has all great actors and is not paying a ton for them. Certainly it’s possible.
But try to think of another show with even a moderate budget that was awesome with an entire cast of “unknowns.”
There are some movies, Kids comes to mind with a new director, writer, and stars like a then unknown Rosario Dawson and Chloe Sevingny. But that budget was like $400k and I think if they had had $40M they would have had different actors.