Finally, the drama version of "The Lord of the Rings" ("Lord of the Rings"), which is scheduled to be released on September 2 this year, first revealed its true appearance!
The "most expensive drama in history", which has been eagerly awaited by fans around the world, unveiled for the first time and released the first stills.
Amazon's drama version of "The Lord of the Rings" has long satisfied the appetite of global audiences, first because of the classic movie version in front of Zhu Yu, and then because of the so-called "most expensive series in history", after Amazon had announced plans to shoot 5 seasons, the first season was filmed in New Zealand, and the second season had been renewed before filming began.
It is reported that the cost of the first quarter will now be as high as $465 million!
That amount, nearly double the $281 million production cost of the film "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and surpassed "Game of Thrones", which cost about $15 million per episode to become the most expensive series in history.
Therefore, everyone is concerned about how the drama version of "The Lord of the Rings" will "burn money", what roles are chosen, what kind of costumes are used, and how shocking special effects are used, and what kind of texture will be achieved.
Although the story of the Lord of the Rings is different from the film, it is set in the second era of the Numanore Empire before the timeline of the first film", "The Lord of the Rings: The Messenger of the Rings", and the series is based on a relatively peaceful era, telling the story before the "Lord of the Rings reappears", a story of a group of new and old faces facing the re-emergence of the evil forces in Middle-earth.
Although the timeline of the drama version is thousands of years earlier, everyone will still compare the two with the series and the movie.
(Poster for the movie The Lord of the Rings 1: The Ringer)
The first batch of stills of the drama version of "The Lord of the Rings" was released, and naturally it was subject to review by a global audience, but this comparison was compared to the gap, and as soon as the stills came out, many people expressed concerns about the future of the drama version.
The first batch of stills did not reach the surprise of the movie "The Lord of the Rings" that year, but was collectively complained about by the audience.
Why?
First of all, it is because of the gap in casting and the appearance of the actors.
As we all know, the "Lord of the Rings" series, which began to be released in 2001, is the pinnacle of fantasy movies, and now 21 years later, no film of the same type can compare with it.
British writer J.R.R. Tolkien's original work is a classic epic fantasy work, coupled with the magic of peter Jackson, a ghost director and screenwriter obsessed with special effects, and the ultimate interpretation of a number of excellent actors, the picture is magnificent, the special effects are dreamy, and the story is breathless, which is simply perfect.
On Douban, the rating of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy all exceeded 9 points, condensed into four words: classic god film.
(Poster for the movie "The Lord of the Rings 3: Invincible")
In particular, the casting of a group of leading actors in the film is simply wonderful, whether it is the human emperor Aragon, the gray-robed wizard Gandalf, or the hobbit Frodo, or the elves of the elven tribe, all classics, impressive.
The most beautiful in the film is the elf family: the elf queen played by Kate Blanchett, the elf princess played by Liv Taylor, and the elf prince played by Orlando Bloom, the fairy spirit is fluttering, and the beauty is like coming out of the fairyland.
However, looking at the appearance of the protagonists of the drama version of "The Lord of the Rings", it is directly a huge gap -
If the top is "immortal", the bottom is "earth".
Born in 1993, British actor Robert Armayo starred in the drama version of "The Lord of the Rings".
In fact, his acting skills are good, the appearance is relatively ordinary, before playing a young Ned in the American drama "Game of Thrones", but this time, his drama version of "The Lord of the Rings" style exposure, obviously almost meaningless.
There are bandits who can play "Game of Thrones" (above), but to play "The Lord of the Rings" requires fairy qi, Robert Aramoyo is obviously much less fairy in appearance (below).
Elf Queen Kaylan Trier, also a big gap!
In the previous movie "The Lord of the Rings", Australian actress Kate Blanchett's Kaylan Trier is both beautiful, fairy, queen-like, and breathtakingly beautiful.
The young version of Kaylan Trier in this drama version of "The Lord of the Rings" is played by swedish-born actress Mofeld Clark ("Dark Matter Trilogy"), and she has a tough side in her temperament, but she is not immortal, and she is also less queen style (below).
The spit is also concentrated in the following points, especially the black people starring in the elves, or an inch (the elves in the movie "The Lord of the Rings" are all flowing long hair), which makes many viewers feel greatly surprised, after all, the male elves 21 years ago, but the elf prince with a beautiful face (below).
Spit 1: Where is the "most expensive episode"?
- Where is the middle-earth story, this is simply a vernacular story... There are too many slots to put your mouth down. Tonight I'll see which Lord of the Rings fan can sleep.
——The actors are quite ugly, the costumes don't feel good, they are very cheap, do they use so much money?
Spit 2: Is it "The Lord of the Rings" or "Game of Thrones"?
- This kind of thing you don't say is the King of the Rings who knows he has something to do with Middle-earth?
——"Game of Thrones" is too strong to feel that way.
- Shouldn't it? How come I didn't see a still that could be called an elf? Where the money goes.
- Just erase the title, you say it's A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) and no one objects to it, right? It's not like Middle-earth at all.
Spit 3: Black Elves Appear!
- There are black people in the Lord of the Rings?
- There are dark elves in the Elven Diamond, but they are not black either...
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For the first batch of stills, many viewers have expressed "bad premonitions" and "feeling to kneel", in fact, the director and screenwriting team of the play are still quite strong -
Peter Jackson, the director of the film The Lord of the Rings, has long stated that he will not direct a theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings, and one of the directors today is Juan Antonio Bayana, the director of Jurassic World 2 and When the Monster Knocks, who directed the first two episodes and served as executive producer.
(Peter Jackson on the set of the movie The Lord of the Rings)
Some viewers complained that the drama version of "The Lord of the Rings" had the feeling of "Game of Thrones", and it is worth mentioning that one of the screenwriters of "Game of Thrones", Brian Kegman, joined the drama version of "The Lord of the Rings", and he worked for the screenwriter John F. Kennedy. D. Payne and Patrick McKay served as consultants, and the latter two writers wrote Star Trek 3: Beyond the Stars and were members of the writing team for the film Godzilla vs. King Kong.
Although it is still too early to draw conclusions for the series with only the first batch of stills, it must be admitted that looking at these stills, the appearance of the actors in the drama version has already lost to the movie "The Lord of the Rings".
(The Elf Prince in the movie "The Lord of the Rings")
If you have seen the movie version of "The Lord of the Rings", will you accept such a drama version of "The Lord of the Rings"?
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