April 19, 2021
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings TV series is very expensive
Apparently The Lord of the Rings series is a really expensive production. According to them, the first season of the series has cost 465 million dollars. That’s quite a lot of money, so much so that the TV series’ budget is $ 150 million higher than the one Peter Jackson had for his The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Here are some other Big Numbers:
- The final and most expensive season of that other fantasy TV series, Game of Thrones, cost just $90 million, or $15 million per episode.
- Disney spent “around 100 million” on the first season of The Mandalorian.
- Disney’s Marvel series are reported to cost as much as $25 million per episode which, considering there are nine episodes of WandaVision, would max out at $225 million. Chump change!
- Adjusted for inflation, it cost Kevin Costner roughly $300 million in 1995 to build an entire island off the coast of Hawaii for Waterworld.
- The US government plans to spend $451 million in 2021 on lunar exploration, or about one The Lord of the Rings season.