Amazon's $1B Lord of the Rings TV Show

[Greg Bernhardt]

Who's excited for this one? I hope it lives up to the budget! At least be as good as GoT. Any predictions on plot?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...v-series-landed-at-amazon-not-netflix-1099213

 

[DennisN]

Very interesting, thanks for posting!

 

[DennisN]

Any predictions on plot?

Spoiler

Ring gets made. Ring gets lost. Ring gets found. Ring gets carried. Ring gets destroyed.

 

[Fervent Freyja]

I'll watch!

 

[Dr Wu]

I'm not sure if the above TV series is intended as a remake of LOTR, or else based on other related material - "The Silmarillion" for example. If it's the former, I do hope (if ever so faintly) that it includes Tom Bombadil & Goldberry, plus "The Scouring of the Shire". It could even squeeze in Gildor at a push.

I mention this because an extended TV series has so much more elbow room at its disposal than film. There's room for almost everything. . . even approaching something akin to complete fidelity with the text? It happened with "I Claudius", "Tinker, Tailor" and "Brideshead Revisited" - to name but three famous TV adaptations. Why not make it four, or more?

 

[Psinter]

How did I not see this thread before!

Ohohoho. I will so wait for it.

But wait... what age are we talking about? What does it means by "preceding" the fellowship? Second age? Most of the story of that age is untold. If that is the case I hope they get good artists. The places should make you feel like you want to visit them.

If it is second age, I think we should get to see more areas of Gondor and more Gondorians. The Gondor land in the map is huge. If late second age, I want to see Dol Amroth. And once again. They better make a breathtaking artistic representation of it.

Now I'm excited to see what they will come up with.