Amazon has a luck bait on itssecretive , $ 250 million dealwith The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien ’s estate of the realm , publishing house HarperCollins , and New Line Cinema to give rise a stream show in the franchise ’s Middle - Earth mount , with expectations that the budget could cross one billion dollars .
LOTR fan still do n’t know an awful lot about the show — initial reports in 2017suggested that Amazon ’s product would primarily look at with “ previously unexplored stories , ” of which there is a circumstances to find in Tolkien ’s massive fantasy universe . later on in 2018 , other reports indicated that the show had signed a dealcould use “ material”from Peter Jackson ’s moving-picture show serial , but it was n’t clear what that meant . Amazon onboarded gift fromStar Trek 4 , and rumour proliferated it wouldinvolve fan favourite Aragorn . Unsurprisingly , the lack of info is probably due to Amazon ’s efforts to keep details from leak out — and Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke said as much in a interview this week withthe Hollywood Reporter .
Salke tell THR that she , Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos , and Senior Vice President of Business Development Jeff Blackburn had schedule a encounter with member of Tolkien ’s estate in New York to “ see some art , some creative work that they have n’t shown the world yet . ” She added that the room where the writer are ferment is kept under “ lock and key , ” with windows kept taped closed and a security safety gadget manning a checkpoint outside with some kind of fingermark - based security organisation :
There ’s a howling writer elbow room lick under lock chamber and winder . They ’re already generating really exciting material . They ’re down in Santa Monica . You have to go through such headway , and they have all their windows taped closed . And there ’s a security safety machine that sit outside , and you have to have a fingermark to get in there , because their whole circuit board is up on a thing of the whole season .
Of of course , secrecy regarding big - budget film and TV productions is nothing Modern . The cast of HBO ’s Game of Thrones reportedly has to cope with simulated scene and digital script thatdisappear after film , and asterisk Sophie Turner claim that HBO had secured some sort of machine tobring down dronesthat attempted to supervise shoot . Films likeChristopher Nolan ’s Dunkirkhave also taken peachy length to protect point from leaking during production .
Like other tech giants , Amazon itself has a broaderpenchant for secrecy — its plenty to construct a massive adroitness in NYC ’s Queens neighborhood shine apart after its campaign to negotiatelucrative , hush - hush revenue enhancement incentiveswith local official foil the countrypissed off New Yorkers .
[ The Hollywood Reporter ]
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