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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Apr 7, 2018 15:37:26 GMT -5
$20 million per episode. For comparison, Game of Thrones averages $6 million per episode, with Marco Polo and Rome weighing in at $9 million per episode. Surprisingly, ER tops the list at $13 million per episode, with Friends second at $10 million, though in both cases the bulk of the cost is cast salaries. ER you could argue that it made sense, especially with operating a hospital as a set. Plus, the props they used (especially a tank) weren't cheap. Friends was $10 million?! At their peak the six stars were all getting $1.5 mil per episode. That accounts for 90% of each episode's budget before anybody even types the first line of the script.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Apr 7, 2018 15:41:34 GMT -5
With such a high budget, couldn't this kill Amazon if it flops and fails to deliver? Amazon is currently the third most valuable company in the world, worth in excess of $700 billion and is expected to pass the $1 trillion mark by the end of the decade. They can take the hit, though being committed to five seasons doesn't necessarily mean it'll get five seasons. If it flops in the first couple of seasons, there likely won't be a third.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 16:03:07 GMT -5
ER you could argue that it made sense, especially with operating a hospital as a set. Plus, the props they used (especially a tank) weren't cheap. Friends was $10 million?! At their peak the six stars were all getting $1.5 mil per episode. That accounts for 90% of each episode's budget before anybody even types the first line of the script. So that's why most of the episodes we're in the coffee shop.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 15, 2019 12:55:25 GMT -5
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 15, 2019 13:00:19 GMT -5
I'm betting a Second Age Saga about the peak/collapse of Numenor, the founding of Arnor/Gondor, the whole forging of the Rings of Power with the elves and Sauron and then maybe finally the Last Alliance.
There's near endless amounts of highly varied material to work with for a TV series at that point in Middle Earth Time.
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Post by Cela on Feb 15, 2019 13:21:03 GMT -5
Interesting... the same map found in every book of LOTR and the beginning of the movie.
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 15, 2019 13:27:04 GMT -5
I think the map being devoid of names and all roads/towns/anything constructed is a massive hint Or I'm just looking at a map with the annotation, roads and towns layers turned off
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 13:33:29 GMT -5
So, either we're getting something creative, like a series based around The Silmarillion, or interpreting the events that happened long before The Hobbit... or a retread of the movies.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 15, 2019 15:07:27 GMT -5
So, either we're getting something creative, like a series based around The Silmarillion, or interpreting the events that happened long before The Hobbit... or a retread of the movies. It's already been confirmed that it won't be a retread, though Amazon are keen to tie into the Jackson adaptations in some form or another.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Feb 16, 2019 14:02:22 GMT -5
It's gonna be one of those stupid "The Adventures of Young Aragorn" type things, isn't it? Where he runs into all the other characters he'll eventually re-meet in the movies and do all sort of things that will give birth to things we see in the movies, Solo-style.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 18, 2019 11:01:11 GMT -5
It's gonna be one of those stupid "The Adventures of Young Aragorn" type things, isn't it? Where he runs into all the other characters he'll eventually re-meet in the movies and do all sort of things that will give birth to things we see in the movies, Solo-style. I's rumored to be young Aragorn. I really hope not. I get Aragorn is like, the movie and books breakout character, but a young Aragorn series is the most boring and predictable option. I hope it's set long before the events of the Hobbit. Maybe tying in with the movies with a Gandalf/Saruman appearance or, the early wars between Gondor and Mordor with the fall of Minas Ithil into Mordor's hands.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Feb 18, 2019 11:45:07 GMT -5
It's gonna be one of those stupid "The Adventures of Young Aragorn" type things, isn't it? Where he runs into all the other characters he'll eventually re-meet in the movies and do all sort of things that will give birth to things we see in the movies, Solo-style. Well, he already knew Gandalf, Legolas, Boromir, Elrond, and Liv Tyler at the beginning of Fellowship, so I guess they could cover those relationships. Kinda boring, though.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 20, 2019 2:46:36 GMT -5
Rohan being marked on the map as Calenardhon suggests that this will take place prior to Third Age 2510 and the gifting of Rohan by Gondor to Eorl the Young, which itself was over 500 years before the War of the Ring.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 20, 2019 5:23:48 GMT -5
Hopefully they find time to include the character everyone wanted from Fellowship. Tom Bombadill. He is a merry fellow. Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Feb 20, 2019 5:37:08 GMT -5
Not judging it but I just think at the moment and for the foreseeable future I am Middle-Earthed out, so anything they are planning is not exciting me
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 6, 2019 18:51:22 GMT -5
Minas Arnor and Minas Ithil are on the map. So, it'll likely take place at least 900 years before the events of LotR.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Mar 6, 2019 20:21:11 GMT -5
"With the series premiere date still years away"
Awww what? I thought they were hyping it because it was due like, next year or something.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Mar 7, 2019 10:42:49 GMT -5
Alright Amazon, you have my attention.
From LOTR Wiki:
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 27, 2019 13:19:29 GMT -5
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jul 27, 2019 15:46:52 GMT -5
With such a high budget, couldn't this kill Amazon if it flops and fails to deliver? No.
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