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Amazon Studios head says Lord of Rings series could air by 2021

Posted 8 years ago

Amazon Studios had been hoping for their own series which could rival HBO's Game of Thrones, and snagging the rights to J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings franchise is certainly a huge step towards that direction. It's still early days...

Peter Jackson says he’s not involved with Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series

Posted 8 years ago

Peter Jackson did the impossible by bringing the classic “Lord of the Rings” books to life with his amazing trilogy of films. He also came back to bring to life the story of "The Hobbit" – albeit to less stunning, but...

Details surrounding Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series reveal themselves

Posted 8 years ago

Not long ago, in a shire far, far away, we'd learned that Amazon's planned LORD OF THE RINGS series would cost the studio upward of $500 million to produce. Now, while that amount of coin would certainly pay for a...

Ian McKellen still wants to play Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings show

Posted 9 years ago

After six movies across 13 years and an Oscar nomination for playing the role, you’d think Sir Ian McKellen would be done playing Gandalf from the LORD OF THE RINGS series. At the very least he must be okay with...

Peter Jackson says Weinstein made him blacklist Ashley Judd & Mira Sorvino

Posted 9 years ago

Once upon a time, Peter Jackson pitched his ambitious THE LORD OF THE RINGS project to Miramax, which at the time consisted of two movies instead of three. The project was in development at Miramax for over a year, during...

Lord of the Rings TV series gets multi-season commitment from Amazon

Posted 9 years ago

Despite what many people think, I do like to remain optimistic about things. I've been proven wrong too many times to think that initial impressions will always be the correct ones. So while my love of the original Peter Jackson...

Sean Astin on Amazon’s potential Lord of the Rings TV series

Posted 9 years ago

Perhaps hoping for their very own Game of Thrones, it was revealed last Friday that Amazon Studios was in negotiations with Warner Bros. and the J.R.R. Tolkien estate to develop a Lord of the Rings TV series. Not everyone was...

The Lord of the Rings may live again as an Amazon TV series

Posted 9 years ago

I had serious doubts that J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings" series could ever successfully make the transition to the big-screen, but what Peter Jackson was able to achieve with THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, and...

Warner Bros. and Tolkien Estate settle epic Lord of the Rings lawsuit

Posted 9 years ago

Film rights disputes are almost always a nasty business, especially when it comes to Hollywood blockbusters the likes of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Today, it's being reported that Warner Bros. and the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien...

The Fellowhip of the Ring is (partially) reunited in epic photos

Posted 10 years ago

Last year marked the 15th anniversary of LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, and if that’s not enough to make you feel like an old geezer then certainly a picture of some members of the Fellowship reenacting...

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