🍿 2022-10-06 12:25:34 – Paris/France.
Power rings are on everyone's lips and seem to have infected humanity with the most terrible virus: the urgent need to share opinions that no one has asked for. Critics and fierce defenses aside, it's curious to imagine what the series would have looked like if it had fallen into other hands which were not those of Amazon Prime Video. And that is precisely what has been revealed in the past few hours, the ideas and proposals presented by Netflix and HBO to take over the rights to The Lord of the Rings and develop their own series.
HBO wanted to tell the story of the movies
According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO offered to do a series of remakes of the Lord of the Rings films. They would maintain the setting of the Third Age there and tell in their own way the epic of Frodo and company through Middle-earth. The platform he did not show his imagination, but he showed his intelligence.
The Tolkien Estate, the legal organization managing JRR Tolkien's work and estate, run by the author's children and grandchildren, has repeatedly clarified that these they are not entirely satisfied with the adaptations of Peter Jackson. HBO hit the nail on the head and gave them what they had always wanted. Tell the story the way they think it should be told.
However, the association was not stupid enough to accept this. compete with Jackson's legacy, winner of 17 Oscars and recognized worldwide. As much as they think the movies »they mutilated and ripped open the books", as Christopher Tolkien, the author's son, recently stated at the end said they weren't interested in walking on the same ground and HBO missed its chance.
Netflix wanted a series about Aragorn and Gandalf
As for Netflix, the pioneer of the world of Streaming tried to sell the idea of create a Marvel universe, but from the Lord of the Rings. The platform touted characters from Tolkien's work and featured several examples of what he meant. Since a series on the adventures of Gandalf in middle earth until a drama about Aragorn to tell of the origins and initial downfall of the future King of Gondor.
The idea " horrified the Tolkien Estate and he didn't want to know anything about when the money came in. Multiple sources indicate that the infamous offer of 250 million for acquiring the rights to The Lord of the Rings It was never from Amazon, but from Netflix. The figure that Bezos' company would end up paying for mere appendages is also staggering, but he never hit those numbers. Fortunately or unfortunately, all the gold in the world did not succeed in convincing the author's heirs to make a TCU, Tolkien Cinematic Universe.
We'll see what the future holds for the brand, because in the end these coveted rights ended up in the hands of the Embracer group, which announced its purchase a few months ago and even dared to offer films about Gandalf and Gollum. Hopefully we will also know in the future what his approach to Tolkien's domain was and how he managed to convince the greatest agnostics of the audiovisual sector. The only sure thing is that without Amazon, Galadriel could not have given us the turra every Friday.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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