ITS LITERALLY A NEW FORM of Cinemaphile! HYPE!
>Amazon's The Lord of the Rings TV show, The Rings of Power, reportedly carries one of the biggest budgets in the history of any TV production. Now, some of the key creatives working on the project have spoken about the budget and how they believe it's actually a bargain for what's being produced. Not only that, but one of its directors believes The Rings of Power isn't even a TV show, but it's instead something new for the entertainment world.
>Showrunner JD Payne told Empire that people should "keep the budget in context," adding that The Rings of Power Season 1 is actually more akin to an eight-hour movie.
>"This is the length of three Marvel films, done on the schedule of two, for the budget of one. Look at it in the context of what's actually being produced and you could say that it's a bargain," Payne said.
>Amazon is said to have spent $250 million on the rights alone, along with $465 million to produce Season 1. Amazon's Jennifer Salke said the massive fee makes for a good headline for people to latch onto, but she reminded people that this money is being spent to "sustain the whole series."
>Director J.A. Bayona is quoted in the piece, too, saying The Rings of Power should not even be thought of as a TV show because it's breaking new ground in the entertainment space. "The Rings of Power is not television. It's a new form we're creating here," Bayona said.
How hyped are you?
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-is-not-tv-but-a-new-form-of-entertainment-director-says/1100-6504414/
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>capeshit now unironically being used as a form of measurement
jesus christ I was wonder what that fricking photo reminded me of
the broken buck himself
HOW
blow it out yo bussy, playa
HYUGE
what would derek zoolander call that pose?
WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LOOKEE HEERE
>New form
What really? They are going to project this thing in our brain?
it's ingested vicariously through shill bots and media puff pieces on twitter
bold strategy
we haven't even begun to see the level of shilling this show will have, with such a massive budget they'll truly outdo themselves this time
They wont start marketing properly until late July to align with San Diego Comicon
But you are right its going to be huge, like TFA tier marketing campaign for that 6 week period until release.
There are forces afoot that will be revealed mid august, that will have people unsubscribing from prime by the millions.
RõP will be but a small part of it, but it will suffer much from it.
Imagine if they give the people behind HBO Rome that kind of budget
I would coom
Yes please tell me more about big budget HBO fantasy shows.
NTA, but eh, I don't think that's a fair comparison. For once the bigwigs were happy to throw sufficient money at a project for it to get a satisfying conclusion, it's the hack showrunner homosexuals who ruined that one.
It was going downhill really fast since S5.
If poggers means good then true.
They ran out of source and it went to shit .
they never run out of source material, they just didn't use it.
come on man s1-4 were poggers
AND THAT IS A GOOD THING!!1!
WOW! I was a bit skeptical (like some) but after finding this out, I for one AM SO HYPED. I'll be tuning into Amazon prime in September and for the low cost of $12.99, and I hope to see you there too!
Why wait until September when you can already subscribe and watch great Amazon Prime originals such as Wheel of Time, The Boys and Reacher?
so can Cinemaphile get a new board for this new form of entertainment, like /nfoe/
David Lynch did it already
so they're trying the James Cameron Avatard snake oil grifting con artist marketing propaganda stratagem
We all know that money 100% correlates with quality, so I’m very hyped!
JA Bayona directed 1st aged prologue/flashbacks are going to pure kino
Anybody that disagrees is a gay
lol its like they hired me to be their elf
You look like this?
Yes, he looks like a homosexual
>looks like a homosexual
Perfect for an Elven king who never got married then
>JA Bayona
aka a guy that made a few low budget award baits and the second worst Jurassic Park movie, why are shills acting as if Amazon resurrected Coppola to direct these episodes or something?
>aka a guy that is experienced in making horror and creature features
If you know some of the content that his episodes are covering you will know why he's such a good pick.
Also most people would agree that his Jurassic World movie was easily the best directed out the 3, the script is what people didn't like which he didn't write.
Not Bayona's fault Trevorrow is a massive hack
>billion dollar project
>can't even pay for fricking knife ears
what the frick is he looking at in this shot, moronic
He's clearly looking an orc in the face
you are vision impaired
Everything about this is going to unwatchable and awful, you ludicrous moron.
I don't hate Lord of the rings but it's like a dinner bell for racists
>I don't hate Lord of the rings but it's like a dinner bell for racists
Being proud of the heritage that inspired LOTR - and not wanting to see it shat on - isn't racist, anon.
This is not lord of the rings idiot, and you will never be a fricking woman for christ's sake.
You know what he meant
Tranette no passto
holy frick I finally get this shitpost
>I don't hate Lord of the rings but it's like a dinner bell for racists
LOTR was never about racism until you fricking homosexuals made it into it!!!FACT!!!
new here? literally everything is
>expensive = good
Why is everyone that Amazon does so soulless?
>Amazon Fresh
Most soulless grocery store I’ve ever been to in my life. I can’t quite put my finger on why but it felt extremely dystopian and depressing. The deli food was shit too.
>Blue Origin
Absolute joke designed to take extremely rich people on space cruises I guess? Again, no soul or spirit involved
>Amazon itself
Obviously
having worked retail before the way amazon fresh has dividers on literally every item would make it so much easier to straighten up and restock. so many man hours are wasted because stores want their extra inch of space on four foot shelves.
I live in Bellevue and know a bunch of people who work at amazon. They all say that it is the worst corporate environment they've ever experienced. The people at the top are legit Patrick Bateman mode and don't care about anything.
The Kindle Fire HDX were great tablets, but of course they replaced them with cheaply made garbage
will there be a hobbitcaust in the show?
OK, so supposedly
>the black guy isn't an elf, he is a half-elf son of an actual Elf and a Harad woman. the father is white.
>the black dwarf is from some distant tribe, completely unrelated to Durin's folk. also she will turn out to be a servant of Morgoth
>he is a half-elf
Wheren't there only 3 of these in all of ME? Not counting Aragorn & Aerosmith there were:
>Earendil & some chick
>Beren & Luthien
am I missing one?
There were either three or four confirmed ones, but Tolkien never fully established how exactly a half-elf works, since at least one of them didn't have the "choose which race you belong to" gift from Eru, and was simply a very long lived human. I see no reason there wouldn't be a few more throughout the millenia, especially if that leak is true and he is from a region that:
A. Had Elves.
B. Tolkien wrote next to nothing about.
Yep Negolas is probably a elf/haradrim lovechild
some journo anon was posting the other day and outlets have been shown footage recently.
Outside chance of larp but the info is pretty specific and the elf concentration camp/1st age prologue stuff is definitely in the show based on leaks
Zero tolerance
Oh shit about to start orc posting in here.
What if, this being a fictional world, dark skin is actually a recessive trait in middle earth, so all the dark Hobbits were bred out?
>all the dark Hobbits were bred out?
that's kind of what will happen, the harfoots are stated to have browner skin so the show explains that by saying that some of their ancestors were black/brown but they all homogenise long before you get to the events of LOTR
Using Marvel movies as a yardstick is not a good sign.
>muh budget
Bro, people remember I, Claudius as a great show 46 years later because it had a great script and great acting not because it had CGI landscapes and shit.
It was good cinema tho. Like re-watch the interior scenes, the atmosphere is believable even today, you're immersed.
>Amazon is said to have spent $250 million on the rights alone, along with $465 million to produce Season 1. Amazon's Jennifer Salke said the massive fee makes for a good headline for people to latch onto, but she reminded people that this money is being spent to "sustain the whole series.
sounds like they are saying they wasted a bunch of money and it'll look like shit.
All that fricking money, Good Lord
How much hookers and blow was included in that huge budget
And again they're comparing it to Marvel. There's 0 artistic vision involved, those are business bots trying to produce art. It's going to suck even more than anyone is expecting.
Yes, all the entertainment will be on forums and comment sections ripping the pile of garbage into tiny little pieces.
Of course they're putting all their resources behind this. They need this to be the first LOTR media that young people see. They want to taint their minds. They worship ugliness and hate beauty.
If you don't like this show, you're a racist. This means it couldn't possibly be bad.
I feel like now Disney have already used the 'if you hate it you're racist' tactic for Obi-Wan this year it won't be as potent when Amazon inevitably do the same in a few months time.
Amazon could have really done with Disney not playing that card so soon before their show.
>If you don't like this show, you're a racist. This means it couldn't possibly be bad.
W-wha.. are.. th-the. saying.. Grim-a?
Oi, is that moy goyrl Gaylarial?!
Gibsmedatriel dwarven QUEEEN
She's going to be the next pop culture phenomenon
You cannot stop it
She's so short it appears like she auditioned as a hobbit but got cast as Galadriel due to how well she "performed" for the casting director and show runners.
Pretty much half the cast will have to be made to look taller/smaller than they actually are. Barely an issue
The image where she gets crowned the other elves are on their knees and still as tall as she is. That's not right.
That's mainly due to the angle of the shot and the fact the other elves are more in the foreground
But you know that
The elf crowning her is still a head taller than she is and she's barely lowering her head at all. She's simply too short for the role.
That's got nothing to do with the height of the actors, it's how they have decided to present the characters and Gil-galad will be particularly tall
See here she is shown as the same height as Elrond, whose actor is 6foot
The issue is more to do with you thinking Gil-galad is too tall
I have seen how short her legs are and how stubby her arms appear. Look up other pictures of her.
And have you seen how tall and un-dwarf like John Rhys-Davies proportions are?
Wasn't an issue then, doubt it will be now
>having to resort to camera tricks because the actress you cast has not the stature required for the role
So?
It's a needless waste of money caused by bad casting decisions. That you don't see the problem tells me everything I need to know about the value of your opinion.
Wait until you find out how tall the hobbit actors in the movies were....
Having to adjust for canon short people and having to compensate for a bad casting choice are entirely different things you moron.
Why do you call it bad casting choice? Why do you think there were better candidates that had a more fitting height?
Can you guys just let him be outraged? This is supposed to be a safe space
>Making somebody look shorter = necessary change
>Making somebody look taller = bad casting
You may be a try hard but you could really do better
Don't resort to being disingenuous to win an argument.
There aren't people who have the size AND proportions of dwarves and hobbits. You have to alter their size to get the desired look and mobility. You can find many an actress of average height and the desired build to play an elf.
How easy do you think it is to find a dwarf that could play Gimli? And how do you propose to cast the hobbits? Do you not think it's more important to get the acting right than the height? And clearly it wasn't a waste of money, because it turned out great
That guy has a weird head shape. Did they go out of their way to hire uggos?
He looks fine
he looks moronic
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, look at their stupid faces, they sure don't look like potato people at all, talk about bad casting.
>6' vs 5'3''
They had to put her on a stool. LMAO
kek that's pretty goofy. it's all kinds of fricky.
cgi by pajeets?
>cgi by pajeets?
Weta Digital and ILM
god I can't fricking stand elves
there has to be a fanmade cut of LOTR with all the elf scenes removed, right?
flouncy bastards speak so slowly, I swear Galadriel's scenes were played at 70% speed to try make them more ethereal and otherworldly but it just makes them take so god damn fricking long
fricking elves were a mistake
Fair point. Gimli was the tallest of the fellowship
no she won't, white women are box office poison as action leads, no one buys it. and this one looks weird, plus galandriel doesn't have the appeal that dany had for the female demographic. she doesn't frick tons of hot men, she doesn't girl boss, she doesn't get worshipped by unwashed masses of browns. at most this version will just be an action girl. the female demographic don't care about action girls.
>she doesn't frick tons of hot men
She will be single in the show and get stranded on a shipwreck with a hot Numenorean....
>she doesn't girl boss
lol she will
please, the most this show will do is some kisses, maybe some hugging. the women that hot into GoT did it because it was almost softcore porn and they projected into dany, and she had a new boyfriend every season and plenty of simps. galadriel isn't that.
Galadriel will belittle white patriarchs and get fricked by BBC in this new show, don't kid yourself. She probably has a sex scene with Lenny Henry's black hobbit.
Ironic shitposting still SHITposting
>she doesn't get worshipped by unwashed masses of browns
I mean, she does get worshiped by one unwashed squat brown.
Wait, she is supposed to be Galadriel? I thought she was an Eowyn knockoff or something, she looks neither like an elf nor a sorceress
>Doesn't look like an elf
Does when you do the ol' ear checkaroo
Wait, is this supposed to be a scene where they have to look at her ears to find out she's an Elf? I sure as shit hope not if that's Galadriel
>is this supposed to be a scene where they have to look at her ears to find out she's an Elf
Probably more like this Numenorean grunt is doing a 'look what we've got boys!' to the lads
And shortly after this she will take the BNC, it is written
She's single single in the show anyway lel, Celeborncucks seething
>single single
I'm moron
Telepornobros......
>touching her hair
Eru was right in sinking that whole damn continent.
>Galadriel
>Using a fricking sword
ITS LITERALLY AN INVENTION OF FRICKING MORGOTH SHE LITERALLY DOESNT EVEN NEED TO USE IT SHE CAN LITERALLY DOMINATE THE MINDS PF ANYONE TRYING TO ATTACK HER THIS IS FRICKING BULLLSHIT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>SHE CAN LITERALLY DOMINATE THE MINDS PF ANYONE TRYING TO ATTACK HER
source?
>Can cast dominate mind spells at will
Yeah nice headcanon homosexual
>Headcanon
Read the books
It's stated verbatim that Melkor assisted the elves in inventing swords used for the
first kinslaying , Galadriel is neve portrayed as using a sword and it's implied she uses bows instead. Bows being the creation of Oröme the hunter
>Now the Quendi had possessed weapons in Middle-earth, but not of their own devising. They had been made by Aule and sent as gifts by the hand of Orome, when it became known to the Valar that the Quendi were beset by prowling evils that had discovered the places of their dwelling beside Cuivienen; and more were sent later for the defence of the Eldar upon the Great March to the shores of the Sea. But all these were long unused, and lay in hoard as memorials of old days half-forgotten; and since the chaining of Melkor the armouries of the Valar also had been shut.
Aule had given them weapons on their journey to the coast. While what you say is true about Morgoth, it might not be necessarily true that the first sword was forged under him. But regardless, swords did not have an inhernetly evil connotation for Elves or Men. Which is why there are so many famous swords in Tolkien's world, the most obvious being Narsil and Glamdring
They had axes, bows and spears for tools/hunting. Feanor forged the first sword and helmet to threaten Fingolfin
Is it actually explicitly said that Aule hadn't forged swords for them? And the weapons were forged to help them on their journey to the coast, which had danger along the way
>SHE CAN LITERALLY DOMINATE THE MINDS PF ANYONE TRYING TO ATTACK HER
Hot.
>ITS LITERALLY AN INVENTION OF FRICKING MORGOTH
>swords
>an invention of Morgoth
There is zero reason to believe this beyond the fact that he created the need for swords
maybe it was dildos
She looks like Freya Allan if Freya Allan aged more...predictably and gracefully
>She looks like Freya Allan
Morfydd looks way better than that half-bogged b***h despite being 13 years older
Ugly b***h, only reason she got the role was because her name sounds Tolkienish
Do you think Tolkien had those same thoughts when he admitted he plagerised a story from the Finnish Kalevala?
Source?
>mythological derivation
>plagiarized
Well shit... looks like the old testament plagiarized Gilgamesh then.
You (literal) epic moron.
all fiction is plagerized
i dont remember any obese black women in the lord of the rings trilogy by J.R.R.
That thing in the middle is the most repulsive thing I saw in my life, had a few nightmares about it already.
>sitting in front of a screen
>new form of entertainment
yeah ok
Liberals need to admit when they’re wrong
>should not even be thought of as a TV show because it's breaking new ground in the entertainment space
Good. Keep this off-topic shit off Cinemaphile.
>but it's instead something new for the entertainment world.
>Rings of Power isn't even a TV show, but it's instead something new for the entertainment world.
Oh, so it's not Cinemaphile material and threads should be banned. Good.
>How hyped are you?
Not at all. Will not watch it. Don't care.
Are there actual shills on this board now? I know sometimes some of you guys like to pretend to be ones to get (You)'s or just to stir shit. But some of you are way too dedicated on replying trying to prove this show won't be ass. Damn, how much is Amazon paying you, 1 dollar every 100 post?
>How hyped are you?
shan't be watching negrified middle earth.
Thanks for using marvel films for the analogy amazon. I wouldn't have understood any other metric.
They're talking about the LotR trilogy but couldn't state it because official narrative is that they don't try to compare themselves to it. Three movies filmed in one go running over 8 hours. They're not breaking new ground at all. Other than the amount of money they spent and the number of people they frick over.
>history of any TV production
That's a big no no from me, tv is always garbage.
Does this mean they need a new board?
>have huge budget
>only hire ugly actors
americans are too paedomorphic in spirit to capture anything that made the original movies feel so ancient, let alone the books
So it’s a film serial?
How far up your own ass can you be? Stunning.
I imagine it's pretty common when artsy types are finally handling massive amounts of people and money
It's probably some shareholder pleasing too
I have amazdong prime but I won't watch it there even though pirating it takes more clicks (2-3).
Hey OP. I'm not watching this show for homosexuals. Seethe more.
Rangz
sounds like a big scale money laundering operation
>he's not excited for the dicky Galadriel scenes
Bunch of gays I swear
i would physically assault this girl if she is wearing that in front of me
That's why you're not allowed around people anymore.
>~~*people*~~
yeah not interested in going to the synagogue, rabbi
>i would physically assault this girl if she is wearing that in front of me
She is literal British nobility mate, you would never be seen again if you touched her
Haha what the frick is a bong going to do, ask me to leave? Fine me?
>Haha what the frick is a bong going to do
I'm sure Epstein was thinking the same thing not long before his sudden '''suicide'''
That was because he fricked with Americans
>That was because he fricked with Americans
Sure thing
I love that americans think their goofy "howdy doody yes sireee!" population is hard. soft c**ts lmao.
>nobility
>roots for ethnic cleansing
yeah it checks out
>nobility
none of them deserve to be called that, in a just world they'd all hang for high treason
Yeah but she's going to be a qt child Galadriel so lets just let the classism slide for now, ok?
5th Baron Haden-Guest is the only british lord worth a damn
Thankfully his and his hermaphrodite wife's adopted troony children won't get his title since it's only biological kids that can inherit.
Freshest of images
Durin 4th with dialect coach, Leith McPherson, who worked on the movies
>In the first of five planned seasons for The Rings of Power, the show makes heavy use of Elvish, Dwarvish, and Orcish (“black speech”), in addition to English flavored with British and Irish palettes. However, foreign dubs of the show will not feature any of the fantasy languages; only the native “English” track of the show will allow viewers to hear the acoustics of Tolkien.
ESLs BTFO
>only the native “English” track of the show will allow viewers to hear the acoustics of Tolkien.
Jarring to switch between a dub actor and the English actor whenever they are speaking elvish or whatever.
Alternative would be to try and get the dub actor to speak these fantasy languages which would just be hilarious, like imagine a Japanese or Mexican trying to recite Sindarin
>The Rings of Power is not television
That's good, because it won't be on my tv
>This is the length of three Marvel films, done on the schedule of two, for the budget of one.
And.. that’s supposed to be a good thing? The frick?
It's meant to show that the money spent isn't all that crazy when you compare it to blockbuster movies
You're overlooking the "done on the schedule of two" part.
>done on the schedule of two
That's what you can do when it's filmed in one go
It's not tv, it's propaganda
>choose your own adventure TV
I'd unironically watch if they had votes at the end of each season of what each character should at least try to do. Obviously there would be no twists if the listened 100%
>"This is the length of three Marvel films, done on the schedule of two, for the budget of one. Look at it in the context of what's actually being produced and you could say that it's a bargain," Payne said.
Fricking red flag
>How hyped are you?
will never watch woke trash/10
Prime TV is literally a side hustle for Amazon. It's a loss leader to get Prime customers to buy more and more Shit. They honestly don't give a Frick how well any of these shows do, and it's all Chump change to them.
aws had 6bn in profit q1, rings of power cost them two weeks of cloud services profit.
This. Especially since most of this woke shit is basically funded by Blackrock anyway, so even if Amazon doesn’t make back what it spent on lorda dem rangz from the show itself, it doesn’t matter because they didn’t spend their money and any money they make is profit. That’s why we see so much woke shit, regardless of how well it actually does, blackrock is paying to shove this propaganda.
It's called "webseries"
Based Bayona
When will they learn?
Bayona is a based manlet like James Wan, they are so short they can't even try and hide it so they just embrace it
Holy shit, that b***h could fit three fat dicks in that mouth no problem.
no bully, she is a big girl
>no bully
lol frick off
this is wrong, that guy is thinking of killing himself now because of all that
That would be great for the gene pool
are you proud of your own genes, anon?
Tell me how that's relevant?
post wrist
Oh so you can't
That's what you get for going after club bawds
>Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power Is Not TV But A "New Form" Of Entertainment, Director Says
Yes, we know it's blatant anti-White propaganda.
They have no fricking idea what makes Tolkien so popular all these years later. The movies almost got it right and still fricked it up.
>Love of Nature and the simple things in life
This is why he spent pages talking about landscapes. This is why the Hobbits are such key figures in the universe, they are his ideal life.
>The Good Guys always win, but there is always a cost and rarely a truly happy ending.
This is why the Scourging of the Shire is in the book.
>The evils in society come from people with a lust for power that will destroy the natural world n order to bring everything to heel. Replacing "useless" beauty of the world with ugly metal monstrosities that serve a purpose.
This one they will NEVER touch on. It hits too close to home for them.
They can add as many Blacks, wet backs, asiatics, terrorists, homosexuals, what the frick ever. I dont give a shit about that. Just get the fricking basics of the universe down.
>They can add as many Blacks, wet backs, asiatics, terrorists, homosexuals, what the frick ever. I dont give a shit about that.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
>They can add as many Blacks, wet backs, asiatics, terrorists, homosexuals, what the frick ever. I dont give a shit about that. Just get the fricking basics of the universe down.
Grima, what the frick are you talking abaut?
idk I been hitting that pipeweed it's deadass bussin fr
Dudesss Isss mightsss besss evilss butss Iss amss notsss thatss evilss lmaossss. Shouldss Iss doubtssss yoursss loyaltyssss wizardsss?
I would bring Sauron back just to get at his boipussy.
Have you ever thought about how at some period in the future they're going to have to explain how humanity had access to all the information in the world yet a large portion declared a myth of racial equality in the face of an obscene amount of evidence and at the expense of the function of nearly every institution?
I mean that whole Spanish inquisition nonsense seems moronic even today but they have magnitudes more understandable ignorance. And this time we'll have videos and shit.
>"This is the length of three Marvel films, done on the schedule of two, for the budget of one. Look at it in the context of what's actually being produced and you could say that it's a bargain,"
its going to be shit isnt it
based
You are viewing paid content.
i dislike the galadriel the most, theres something weird about her
yeah no shit, she's Welsh
Welsh women belong to the English
Don't worry, I'll be watching
>you know what’s more powerful than a man? A woman acting like a man
I can’t wait for this ultra leftoid phase to be over. Christian moms weren’t even this bad in the 80s and 90s.
Neo-Bolshevik Red Guards are a little more dangerous than Trish from the PTA
*reaches under chainmail flap*
*gives dicky a little rickle tickle*
*runs away snickering*
she cute
Literally and figuratively only watching it for Morfy
whats she doin in that cave?
Monster hunting side quest
she's about to burn herself to death, and make way for the real lore-accurate galadriel
Cope
>no argument
yikes
Come on man they at least say her hair glows with the essence of the two trees and she's hot as frick
hot, how big are her testicles?
>ITS LITERALLY A NEW FORM of Cinemaphile! HYPE!
's The Lord of the Rings TV show, The Rings of Power, reportedly carries one of the biggest budgets in the history of any TV production. Now, some of the key creatives working on the project have spoken about the budget and how they believe it's actually a bargain for what's being produced. Not only that, but one of its directors believes The Rings of Power isn't even a TV show, but it's instead something new for the entertainment world.
Uh huh, something new using something old's name?
JD Payne told Empire that people should "keep the budget in context," adding that The Rings of Power Season 1 is actually more akin to an eight-hour movie.
So like I should expect a lot?
Huge budget, huge expectations?
>>"This is the length of three Marvel films, done on the schedule of two, for the budget of one. Look at it in the context of what's actually being produced and you could say that it's a bargain," Payne said.
God what a terrible pitch. "Lower your expectations" It's like they're already apologizing and trying to frame our pity.
is said to have spent $250 million on the rights alone, along with $465 million to produce Season 1. Amazon's Jennifer Salke said the massive fee makes for a good headline for people to latch onto, but she reminded people that this money is being spent to "sustain the whole series."
Sustain the rights, not the quality. Almost a billion dollars spent and they're already telling us it'll look a third as good as a Marvel movie.
J.A. Bayona is quoted in the piece, too, saying The Rings of Power should not even be thought of as a TV show because it's breaking new ground in the entertainment space. "The Rings of Power is not television. It's a new form we're creating here," Bayona said.
Yeah, "it's not tv" as a slogan is taken Amazon.
>How hyped are you?
Not very
>long form serialized epic film
Not new.
It will need HDR capable TVs for the shades of brown to pop properly.
>This is the length of three Marvel films, done on the schedule of two, for the budget of one. Look at it in the context of what's actually being produced and you could say that it's a bargain
Feeling real sorry for the VFX studios crunching for this shit.
How is it breaking new ground so that it’s something other than a tv show?
There are alot of rumours of them releasing the first two episodes in cinemas (worldwide) as a standalone movie, but that in itself wouldn't be anything revolutionary
wait they'd still put that on prime video though right?
Yeah, they might do a cinema release a week early I guess? Get people talking about it
It's not a done deal but since Amazon bought MGM they have the capacity to get media into cinemas easily and it's definitely something they are seriously looking into.
Also JA Bayona released some frames which were in 2.39:1 aspect ratio, meaning they filmed it for cinema screen format
>it’s not tv, it’s an 8 hour movie!!!
Has this fricking moron not seen a tv show made in the last 15 years? He’s saying this like it’s groundbreaking lel
I won't watch it because I don't like Lord of the Rings and because Amazon only produced two good things since ever (ZeroZeroZero and Lost City of Z), but I really want to see the shitshow surrounding everything with it. I think Cinemaphile will be mess during the first episodes.
My brother will probably go crazy over this shit because he likes the books and he got a Prime account.
>woah woah woah it has a budget comparable to a Marvel movie
Marvel movies look fricking horrible and mostly have 2003 Indian-tier CGI; why is that considered a selling point?
Do we know how many actual blacks and indians are in the movie? maybe they just put the blackies in the trailers and posters to virture signal.
So nine of them. I think the two tanned guys in the first column will actually fit
it's supertv, only for tolkien superfans (and scholars)
I'll not watch it and tell my normie friends not to watch it either. Frick you PR intern. This trash isn't even worth torrenting.
>have to hear about how many brown people there are in the show and how offensive that is to current chud sensibilities instead of how the show is being directed and ran by literal newbies appointed through nepotism and is supposed to adapt a two-page tolkien poem because they couldn't get the rights to the silmarillion
thank you moot for keeping all containment boards alive i'm happy nothing came of it since you left
New BTS pic
Durin 4th and dialect coach Leith McPherson (she worked on the movies)
>Leith
what'd the hospital make a typo or something?
>This is the length of three Marvel films, done on the schedule of two, for the budget of one
This sounds like someone trying to hype up Star Wars The Old Republic before it launched lmao
>This is the length of three Marvel films, done on the schedule of two, for the budget of one
Did they really think it was a good idea to say this? Jesus.
>world looks cheap
>characters look boring
>story sounds shit
the golden age of television is over
>story sounds shit
I don't even think they have released any story details yet and I doubt they will
>story sounds shit
They want to make 5 seasons worth of content out of literally 42 pages of foot notes.
Yeah this isnt going to go well.
>This is the length of three Marvel films, done on the schedule of two, for the budget of one.
why does he think that's a positive thing
I always imagine elven men with soft skin and tight holes.
The two showrunners have no credits for any projects, whose kids are they?
I dont like this Elvish magic.
KINO
HL2 had better lighting almost 20 years ago.
Elden ring makes this look amateurish at best.
>Elden ring makes this look amateurish at best
Elden Ring literally plagiarised Tolkien's ideas and the designs of several well known artists
And it looks better than this shit, and is actually playable
Looks like a video game
Damn looks good. This combined with "logical" amounts of Black person and qt dicky might actually result in kino.
Wrong board
>this goy slop is new goy slop
You get what you pay for.
>Length of three Marvel films, schedule of two, budget of one
It's gonna look like the Obi Wan show. Like a fan movie
Eight hours of shit. Looking forward to it.
>Eight hours of shit.
50 hours, the show has been unconditionally greenlit for the full 5 seasons. I mean they already spent >50% of the 5 season budget due to the massive startup costs
Dont care, cancelling my prime in september
How many seasons is Jazz at now?
Man I read this only for it to be some troony obsessed bullshit
Stop fricking talking about trannies every day
sex
Morfydd a cute but she's not cute enough to sing of leaves of leaves of gold and winds that in the branches blew. She should stick to the schizo femcel game, where she belongs.
>schizo femcel game
She's actually going to be doing some of that in the show, lel
I think the producers want to play to her strengths, remember there is no Celeborn atm and they want to show a 'PTSD Galadiriel'
>showrunners said they are depicting a 'PTSD Galadriel'
>also said the main theme of the show is "the fear of death and the desire to live forever"
this is pure kino potential
Yet they cripple that theme by compressing 1000 years to one lifetime, diluting the impact of men just growing old and elves staying forever.
well maybe but having something just depicting the elves fear of fading could be kino enough. In fact that can lead into why they want magic rings in the first place (which do actually restrict the passage of time) because elves age too, just very slowly
No, elves don't age past adulthood. They are specifically described as "ageless". Yes, I know Cirdan technically has signs of aging, but Tolkien had the unfortunate flaw of inserting exceptions into his own established rules.
What they do is "diminish" or "fade away" - without a powerful source of magic, they very slowly turn into something similar to wraiths, though obviously not evil or insane. That's why, once the Third Age ends, most of them will sooner or later have to travel to Valinor...
Except there are also tribes like the fricking star elves, who never travelled to Valinor in the first place. As I said - Tolkien loved his exceptions to the rules.
>No, elves don't age past adulthood. They are specifically described as "ageless"
I'm not talking about aging in a physically sense, dumbass. For elves, their body ages and start to disconnect from their spirit once they get really old.
Tolkien is very explicate about this
Elves wanting to prevent future decay and fading is very relevant to the 2nd age events
Moron.
>"Unlike Men, however, they are immortal, in that their bodies do not age once they have reached maturity, so that they do not seem to become elderly or die of old age."
You clearly don't understand what you are talking about. The idea of elvish spirits and bodies disconnecting is fundamental to middle earth.
Elves do age and '''die'' in a physically sense, but its not something a human can comprehend
Give me a quote on that, or shut up. Mine was from "The History of Middle-earth".
Read The Nature of Middle Earth
The fading of the elves is a very well known concept, Tolkien explicitly said that at the end of the 3rd age Galadriel was so old she was on the verge of her body physically starting to fade away.
Tolkien wrote about this multiple times!
These homies literally go and chill in the gloom of Mandos for an unspecified amount of time before jumping into new bodies.
Brilliant? The same tactic has been used over and over again for at least a decade. And it never worked out.
>this is pure kino potential
This is your brain on PR hype
>This is your brain on PR hype
I mean maybe, but if you have read these books you would understand that these are really top tier comments about the direction of the show
Every Cinemaphile stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler.
>This is the length of three Marvel films, done on the schedule of two, for the budget of one
And that`s a good thing because?
>Achooally chuds we made all this for cheap!
Ok?
By the way, Amazon has used the current political climate to play both sides brilliantly.
>Immediately announce the diversity hires, knowing full well the media/leftists will start slavering all over you, whilst at the same time the opposite aisle will flood their boards with vitriol - and free marketing.
>Then, after some time, start slowly seeping out information that the diversity characters are not, in fact, breaking the lore, and actually point to the writers paying attention.
>Now you have the entire Internet abuzz about your product, at the same time slowly purging the ill will you initially generated.
How are you such a massive wiener-sucking homosexual
Free Marketing-kun, watch your blood pressure. I know it hurts to be a sucker, but what can one do?
How they just focus on making a good show?
Oh thats right, they are not capable, so all they have is marketing polushed turds.
If your "they're showing the good now" phase includes comparing it to capeshit then it's still a a bad phase and you've fooled yourself.
All of you literally fell for the bait under the guise of it being ironic.
You knew, coming into this thread, that that statement was moronic.
It is just a show. It can only be just a show.