Variety.com wrote:'Lord of the Rings': Amazon, Warner Bros. in Talks for Series Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)
Warner Bros. Television and the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien are in talks with Amazon Studios to develop a series based on the late author's "The Lord of the Rings" novels. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is said by sources with knowledge of the situation to be personally involved in the negotiations, which are still in very early stages. No deal has been set. [link]
The common thinking already emerging about this is that Amazon is looking for a Game of Thrones, although that assessment has a number of problems.TheOneRing.net wrote:As the Variety article implied, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, has been wanting to launch a major fantasy series along the lines of HBO's Game of Thrones. As it turns out, the project has been shopped not only to Amazon, but to Netflix and HBO as well. In an article that also came out yesterday, Nellie Andreeva at Deadline Hollywood has heard that HBO has dropped out of the running almost certainly because of the hefty price tag: upfront payments in the range of $200 - $250 million just for the rights to then produce a series that could cost up to $150 million per season. [link]
But one possibility is that we might see a more episodic, and more complete, LOTR adaptation.
If only they had thought of the Chronicles instead!