Game of Thrones' final season is set for 2019.
But what comes after?
Well Game of Thrones fans have several things to be lookin forward to: A spin off focusing
on the age of heroes is already scheduled and more additional spin offs have been announced
as well.
When and where exactly these shows will air on the small screens has not been revealed
yet.
Fans of high quality fantasy entertainment can stay positive though, since a new tv heavy
weight might turn out to be a worthy competition for game of thrones.
After all „lord of the rings“ will return to television with an amazon prime original
tv series.
We will now tell you everything you need to know about this upcoming show.
But be aware that this video does contain spoilers for both the lord of the rings and
the hobbit.
You have been warned.
The most expensive show ever – that is what they call the upcoming amazon original lord
of the rings show.
After all the show is set to have the incredible budget of one billion dollars.
However that number should be taken with a grain of salt since amazon has only paid 250
million dollars yet in order to purchase the lord of the rings property from the tolkin
estate.
The Tolkin estate are the descendants of J.R.R.
Tolkin and therefore have been the legal custodians of his intellectual properties.
Now they have been approached by amazon and received 250 million dollars to hand over
the rights.
According to amazon, the contract demands, that the show needs to go into production
within the next two years.
This is why we could expect to see the first season of the new lord of the rings show already
in 2021.
If we're lucky maybe even a year earlier.
But what how did we arrive at the massive number of one billion dollars?
Well the contract apparently includes a clause, that demands a runtime of at least five seasons.
This means, that the estimated cost per season is approximately between 100 and 150 million
dollars.
To put that in context let us take a closer look at current tv giant „game of thrones“.
The shows budget increased both per episode and per season.
The bigger and more ambitious the battle sequences were the the more expensive the show became.
Season 1 for example had an estimated budget of 60 million dollars with 6 million dollars
per episode in mind.
Season 2 uped the ante with episode „Blackwater“ alone, which cost around 8 million dollars.
The work and effort put into game of thrones grew exponentially which is why season 6 devoured
a budget of 100 million dollars.
The upcoming season will only consist of 6 episodes but every single one of em has a
budget of 15 million dollars.
This is why amazons „lord of the rings“ won't have a problem htting the billion dollar
mark with its production costs.
After all we expect a lot from a show that takes on the legacy of both the iconic tolkien
novels and Peter Jacksons epic trilogy.
The latter's involvement with the show still remains to be confirmed.
According to unspecified sources amazon has been in talks with Jackson but what exactly
that means for the show is yet to be revealed.
It is very possible that he will simply act as an consultant for the show.
But now lets focus more on the show itself.
Amazon does not intend to simply go for a remake of „the lord of the rings“.
They are much more interested in „telling the unexplored stories among tolkiens work“;
beloved fan favorite characters are however set to appear as well.
Rather than creating a lord of the rings remake, the show is set to focus on the story that
unfolded before the events of the fellowship of the rings.
Two important works could act as source material for the show: the first thing that comes to
mind are the attachments of the lord of the rings books themselves; the second one is
the so called „silmarillion“ which features a collection of tales and legends that all
take place in middle earth.
According to a reliable source the first season will be focusing on a young Aragorn.
This leads fans to believe that the show will be an anthology series that will tell a new
story with each season.
With the young Aragorn at hand amazon could hit two birds with one stone: feature a fan
favorite character while simultaneously telling a new exciting story.
We could see the story unfold of how Aragorrn and his mother first travelled to Rivendell.
Elrond assumed responsibility for the young boy who then is also first introduced to his
future wife Arwen.
The show could focus on this romantic bond and at the same time feature multiple adventures
of isildurs heir who tries to beat back the armies of sauron.
Druing his travels he also encounters gandalf and should the first season stand on its own
it could end with the first encounter between Aragorn and the hobbits in bree.
Aside from the story of Aragorn and Arwen the show could also throw a game of thrones
like element at us.
The attachments A and B to Toliens Lord of The Rings alone offer enough material to achieve
this goal.
An example would be the story of the kings of gondor – this would be a great chance
to push some big names like Elendils and Isildur in the spotlight and give them their own stories.
The both of them only appeared briefly in peter jacksons trilogy.
Elendil and the elve king gil galad fought side by side during the last alliance between
elves and men when they confronted saurons armies.
But how did Sauron rise to power to begin with?
How did he become the great menace to middle earth?
How did men and elves become allies?
How did the one ring affect Isildur once he took it from sauron – all these questions
could be answered and explored in the show – thus giving us a great overview of the
second age.
The second age also is also when the story of Celebrimbor unfolded.
This tale focuses on the ruler and master blacksmith celebrimbor who forged the rings
of power.
This arc would be particulary intersting for the television series.
After all it deals with Sauron who disguises himself as the handsome Annatar in order to
gain the trust of the elves, and to get his hands on the rings.
They forged the rings of power, whch sauron later gave to the dwars and men.
Celebrimbor secretly forged 3 rings of power upon seeing through Saurons facade.
It was around that time that Sauron forged the one ring.
This set the war between the elves and sauron in motion.
The games „middelearth: shadow of mordor“ and its sequel introduced celebrimbor to a
wider audience, the show could draw from that and portray him even more acurately thus giving
the viewers another interesting aspect ot the lord of the rings saga.
Even the story of the dwarfs, which was heavily focused on in the hobbit films could be further
expanded.
Durins people deserves at least a mention in the show and should not be left out completely.
What was Moria like before it fell?
How were the dwarfs driven out?
What happened to the dwarfs who got their hands on saurons rings of power?
As you see there is multiple stuff.
that the show could potentially draw inspiration from without simply copying peter jacksons
masterpiece.
Similar to game of thrones multiple kingdoms play equally important roles: men, elves,
dwarfes and the sinister sauron.
In addition to that individual tales of characters like Aragorn, Celebrimbor or numerous others
who have not been mentioned in this video could be told.
Which stories would you like to see ? Will you be watching the new show?
And which lotr film do you like the most?
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