Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

Wombat said:

The media story was Bezos said 'We have all the money on earth, where's my Game of Thrones', i.e. a high budget, high prestige genre show, and that he liked the concept of doing a Lord of the Rings show.

Obviously, there are a laundry list of reasons for why it is a disaster, from not paying for the rights to the source material you'd actually need, inexperienced leadership, race swaps, unsupported gender focus, lack of involvement from the film group (to be fair, The Hobbit firmly establishes they aren't perfect either), lore changes pissing off the hardcore audience, etc.

Industry rumors are no one at Amazon is happy with the end result either - the production has already swapped countries at least once to lower the budget - and it is very up in the air if it will get the planned Season 4 or 5.

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Wombat said:

The media story was Bezos said 'We have all the money on earth, where's my Game of Thrones', i.e. a high budget, high prestige genre show, and that he liked the concept of doing a Lord of the Rings show.

Obviously, there are a laundry list of reasons for why it is a disaster, from not paying for the rights to the source material you'd actually need, inexperienced leadership, race swaps, unsupported gender focus, lack of involvement from the film group (to be fair, The Hobbit firmly establishes they aren't perfect either), lore changes pissing off the hardcore audience, etc.

Industry rumors are no one at Amazon is happy with the end result either - the production has already swapped countries at least once to lower the budget - and it is very up in the air if it will get the planned Season 4 or 5.

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Dr.Retarded said:

Was it basically supposed to be stuff after the books or series or whatever? I'm assuming it's what takes place after the end of the books or series?

I guess it would have given that in carte blanche to write whatever stupid shit they wanted as fanfic.

If that's the case, that's retarded, trust me I'm a doctor...

Good on him though for not wanting to just go after a damn paycheck, and maybe paying respect to The source material. I don't believe his career has s really taken off but I'm sure he gets work, but maybe he learned something about honor from playing his character.

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