Amazon Spares No Money: Almost $ 500 Million Will Be Spent on The Lord of the Rings Season 1 – A Record for TV Shows

Amazon will spend on filming the series “Lord of the Rings“approximately NZ $ 650 million ($ 465 million), as reported by the portal with reference to New Zealand Minister of Economic Development and Tourism Stuart Nash The hollywood reporterAt the same time, we are talking only about the budget of the first season.

This is much more than the previous financial estimate of the production, according to which, a multi-part fantasy-drama should have cost the company $ 500 million at once over several seasons.

“I can tell you that Amazon will spend about 650 million [новозеландских] dollars only for the first season. It’s incredible, but it’s true. “The Lord of the Rings” will be the largest television series ever created, “- said Stuart Nash on the Morning Report show on RNZ.

The figure was first disclosed under the Official Information Act by the New Zealand government and published by New Zealand’s Stuff. The document also confirmed that the studio plans to film in New Zealand at least five seasons of The Lord of the Rings and one as-yet-unannounced spin-off of the series.

For comparison, the production of “The game of thrones“cost approximately $ 100 million per season… In the first to create one episode HBO spent an average of $ 6 million, while in the eighth, $ 15 million was spent on each episode.

It should be noted that the budget for subsequent seasons The lord of the rings can be much smaller than the first one, since authors do not have to create a fantasy world from scratch, including sets, costumes and props, which require a significant initial investment.

Amazon acquired the rights to the franchise J.R.R.Tolkien about Middle-earth in 2017, and early on it was speculated that the series would eventually become the world’s first show cost 1 billion dollars taking into account the concluded deal, production and marketing for several seasons. It is possible that now this amount may increase.

Filming for the television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings has already started and is slated to premiere later this year. Earlier on the network appeared the first photo from the set and the official synopsis

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