Amazon’s "The Lord of the Rings" television show is going to cost the big bucks.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Amazon series will cost $465 million for just the show’s first season.
The highly anticipated television hit is set to film in New Zealand. The cost of the series was revealed to fans in official documents filed within the country. According to the reports, there will be potentially five seasons.
“What I can tell you is Amazon is going to spend about $650 million in season one alone,” Stuart Nash, New Zealand minister for economic development and tourism, said. "This is fantastic, it really is … this will be the largest television series ever made.”
Each season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” costs about $100 million to produce, more than four times less than what the first season of Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings” will cost. However, reports say the future seasons of the show could cost less to produce.
The new show has been called the next “Game of Thrones." Some of the show’s alumni have even been cast in the new “The Lord of the Rings” series.
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In 2020, it was announced that former actors from the hit HBO show Robert Aramayo (young Ned Stark) and Joseph Mawle (Benjen Stark) are set to appear in the new “Lord of the Rings” series coming to Amazon.
The series will delve into the storylines set before the events in the first “Lord of the Rings” novel, “The Fellowship of the Ring.”
Aramayo will play a reported protagonist role supposed to be played by “Midsommar” actor Will Poulter. Poulter dropped out of the show due to scheduling conflicts.
The cast also includes Owain Arthur (“A Confession”), Nazanin Boniadi (“Hotel Mumbai”), Tom Budge (“The Proposition”), Morfydd Clark (“His Dark Materials”), Ismael Cruz Cordova (“The Mandalorian”), Ema Horvath (“The Gallows Act II”), Markella Kavenagh (“The Cry”), Tyroe Muhafidin (“Caravan”) and more.
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