"The Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power"
Time Net News Recently, Jennifer Sock, the head of Amazon Pictures, accepted an exclusive interview with "Variety". She revealed that "The Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power" will be launched on September 2 and will end in early October. The show was watched by 100 million subscribers worldwide. Amazon spent more than 400 million US dollars to make the first season. Although the word of mouth is not as good as expected, it is still quite influential. Jennifer thinks that they are very satisfied with the viewing data. The eighth episode of the first season finale of
will be launched on October 14, and the second season has also been confirmed for filming, which will start in London next Monday. It is reported that the great elf shipbuilder and navigator, and Lord of the Grey Harbor, Cirdan, will appear in the second season, and the character candidates have not yet been revealed. The interesting thing about
is that the Hollywood Reporter released a special report not long ago, revealing the details of the original Hollywood HBO, Netflix and Amazon competing for the right to remake the "Lord of the Rings", Amazon is not the highest bidder.
HBO's proposal: retelling the story of the Third Age of Middle-earth - basically the equivalent of a remake of Peter Jackson 's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Tolkien estate committee, while disapproving of Peter Jackson's trilogy (thinking the film misses the point of the novel), has no interest in telling the same story again.
Netflix's proposal (bidding $250 million): Use the Marvel model to produce multiple series, including "Gandalf", "Aragon" series. The plan came as a shock to the Tolkien estate committee, who rejected the highest bid.
Amazon's proposal (bidding about $200 million): No specific details, but promises that the Tolkien Heritage Committee has a certain say in the creative process and protects Tolkien's legacy; at the same time pay high royalties.
