Amazon Studio’s head honcho, Jennifer Salke, has been chatting about that Lord Of The Rings TV show. It’s a fairly massive update she’s offered, so prepare thyself for a lot of quotes… “Despite all the noise around Lord Of The Rings, the deal only closed like a month ago”, Salke explained to Deadline. “But in the meantime, … >
Peter Jackson has reacted to the rumours that he might be involved in Amazon’s in-development TV series based on The Lord Of The Rings, clarifying for his fans that he is not working on the project in any way. Jackson, who directed all of The Lord Of The Rings movies and The Hobbit trilogy, said the following to Allocine … >
When Amazon’s $1 billion Lord of the Rings series was announced, we also kind of just assumed that it would be a remake of sorts – another shot at adapting Tolkein’s trilogy in a more long-form format.
We believe the word here is ‘yikes’. Amazon prevailed in a bidding war at the end of last year, that saw it snap up the rights to make a TV show based on J R R Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The deal was said to have cost Amazon an up front fee … >
Without a frame of footage being shot, it looks like the bill for Amazon’s planned TV series of The Lord Of The Rings is going to comfortably eclipse the price of the acclaimed movie trilogy. Amazon won a bidding war for the rights to make a TV show based on J R R Tolkien’s trilogy … >
The biggest and most surprising television deal of the year? That’d arguably be the reported quarter of a billion dollars that Amazon has forked out to make at least two seasons of a Lord Of The Rings television show. Amazon won the bidding war for the show, but one notable company ducked out very early … >
Amazon’s decision to spend over $200m on a new Lord Of The Rings television series, with a further spin-off included in the deal, has certainly sent ripples around the internet over the past few days. What, people not unfairly ask, can Amazon do with a series that can improve on Peter Jackson’s extraordinary trilogy of … >
The Lord Of The Rings might just be the next Game Of Thrones where TV is concerned…
John Noble has revealed that he’d like to appear in Doctor Who. The Australian actor is best known for his role as Walter Bishop in US sci-fi series Fringe, which ran from 2008 to 2013. He also starred in the Sleepy Hollow TV series and currently plays the father of Jonny Lee Miller’s Sherlock Holmes in Elementary. Asked by a fan … >
The makers of Doctor Who haven’t given up their hopes of persuading The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson to film an episode. Showrunner Steven Moffat had previously revealed: “I’ve spoken to [Peter Jackson] face to face, and he would like to do one. He accepts that there’s no money and that there’s no … >