‘The Lord Of the Rings’: Blockbuster Budget For Season 1 Is Revealed

[hewontgo]

The first season of Amazon Studios’ sprawling The Lord Of the Rings ( #LOTR) series will cost $465 million to produce https://t.co/bA2pF2n1Q2
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) April 16, 2021
The first season of Amazon Studios’ The Lord Of the Rings series will cost $465 million to produce

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[helyanwe89]

That is insane.

Do we even know what it is about yet?

[elevatorshaker]

What do you mean? It's Lord of the Rings.

[sandstorm]

I guess they're asking "Is it a retelling of the movies that already exist, or new stories within Middle Earth?"

[kris_terror]

It's not though, it's a prequel series.

"Set in Middle Earth, the TV series, produced by Amazon Studios, explores new storylines preceding Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring."

[war_machine_rox]

Thats just...a lot of money.

It sounds like they're trying to keep things less CGI so I guess I can appreciate that but damn.

[war_machine_rox]

Like, did they go to actual Middle Earth or. Looks like the trilogy was made with about half that. Idk man. I get its TV and there's multiple episodes but they probably could have cut that cost somewhere.

[kris_terror]

The article mentions a lot of the budget is for building sets that will be used in Season 2 and onward so it's upfronting costs that will benefit the full production lifespan.

[mistycreed]

That makes a lot of sense, especially, if they're building a lot from scratch.

[hypermuseic9]

uh.... that sounds ridiculous.

[asnindie]

I mean I can appreciate practical sets but that number seems absurd.

[wiedemauchsei]

I saw this the other day on twitter and was shook. Apparently this budget is for 20 episodes but it’s still a lot imo.

I just checked and Avengers Endgame had a budget of $356 million so the series budget doesn’t sound as crazy anymore lol I just hope it’s worth it and the show will actually be good