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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.
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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.

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