The first season of Amazon's TV series based on The Lord of the Rings, which at $79 million per episode eclipses what it cost to make Game of Thrones, has wrapped.
The first season of an Amazon Studios TV series based on The Lord of the Rings has finished filming in New Zealand, after a slight delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The first season of Amazon's The Lord of the Rings TV series finished filming in New Zealand this weekThe first season of the series reportedly cost around $630 million to make
The series was among a handful of productions granted exemptions from New Zealand's COVID-19 travel ban, allowing crew members from outside the country to work there after undergoing testing and a period in quarantine. To put that in perspective, that's about $79 million per episode. Game of Thrones, which has been one of the most expensive series in recent years, had episodes that were estimated to cost up to $20 million each.
"Beginning in a time of relative peace, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth."
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