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Amazon is spending $465 million on the first season of Lord of the Rings :marseyemojirofl:

https://winteriscoming.net/2021/04/19/amazon-spending-465-million-the-lord-of-the-rings-series-season-1

Here is the trailer to remind you of what I am talking about.

The entire original Lord of the Rings Trilogy cost around 281 million to make.

For reference, game of thrones Season 4 cost around 60 million to make.

Amazon is literally going to lose all the money on this show calling it right now.

Release date - September 02 2022 :marseypopcorntime:

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I can only pray that good source material and massive amounts of money will be enough to drag this show over the line to something watchable.

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I think it will be watchable, just not gonna make the money it cost or anywhere close.

Jeff Bezos is the kind of rich where he doesn't know how much a TV show is supposed to cost.

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"It's a tv show, Michael? How much could it cost? .5 billion dollars?"

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if it's anything like wheel of time it'll be complete dog shit. I can't wait to see all the redditors sneed about it.

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You ready for another wheel of time?

this time there's way more people familiar with this particular holy cow to become enraged at its slaughter

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I'm praying it's irredeemably awful so I can stand over the wreckage and laugh

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