Amazon just bought the rights to a multi-season Lord of the Rings adaptation
Nov13
Amazon managed to get its hands on the fantasy holy grail today, buying the rights to adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” into a multi-season series for for Amazon’s Prime streaming service. Amazon Prime heads to Middle Earth. https://t.co/QowUmf8t3S pic.twitter.com/YVciEX3u2t — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 13, 2017 Sources inside the company told Variety in September that Jeff Bezos wanted to bolster the profile of its streaming with new shows, specifically a “Game of Thrones”-esque fantasy epic. Now we know Amazon’s seized perhaps the one intellectual property that might take HBO’s fantasy crown. According to Deadline, Amazon paid about $250 million…
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