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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings casts Spartacus actor
- Thread starter Vouthon
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Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’: Everything You Need to Know | IndieWire is to me a great overview of what Amazon is doing.
Given their track record and what I've read so far, I'm cautiously optimistic that they'll have a real winner.
Given their track record and what I've read so far, I'm cautiously optimistic that they'll have a real winner.
Great overview!
Apparently it'll be the most expensive television production in history, nearly a billion $ overall (including the price of the adaption rights from the Tolkien Estate, which were priced at a cool 250 million $ I believe).
They've been pretty quiet about it thus far but the show behind shooting next month in New Zealand.
The full cast hasn't yet been announced, a few key roles are yet to be cast, but 15 actors have been officially confirmed already. I reckon they'll be reserving these later roles for more famous actors. (Amazon's other show currently in filming, The Wheel of Time - another big fantasy adaption - has Rosamund Pike as it's lead).
Until recently, I feel like Amazon Prime have been sort of trailing Netflix in the streaming wars but recently their originals have been very good - such as The Boys and The Expanse (picked up from Syfy).
So, I too am cautiously optimistic. At least whatever they produce should be a vast improvement on the Hobbit movies, even if it fails to measure up to the standard set by the original LotR trilogy.
