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Netflix paid more than Amazon for The Rings of Power, why did it lose?

Without a doubt, it is the seriéfilo phenomenon of the year. The Rings of Power keep moving in the direction that the fans expect, revealing events that few knew and that are helping to deepen the lore of a literary universe as rich in details as in epics, legends and stories. But in the last few hours interesting details have been revealed about why it was Prime Video that took the cat to the water of Tolkien’s rights. Do you know?

Three platforms lurking

It is strange to think that with the money that platforms like Netflix spend annually and that usually exceeds 12,000 million dollars, a franchise like that of The Lord of the rings missed when we were talking about investing much smaller amounts. But before getting into the heart of the matter, it must be said that this is one of those stories you like to hearwhere the gentleman “don money” can not always with everything.

That miracle achieved by Prime Video and Amazon has two names: Patrick McKay and JD Payne, the showrunners of The Rings of Power that, in addition to being unrepentant fans of The Lord of the rings, They knew how to differentiate themselves from the rest of the proposals that came into the hands of the company that manages the literary rights of JRR Tolkien, and in which some of his descendants are in charge.

It is they and only they who made the money stop being important and the 250 million offered by Netflix just to get the rights did not influence the final decision. It was the project, and what they wanted to tell about it, which unbalanced the balance on the side of Prime Video.

Showrunners of The Rings of Power.

The differences between projects

Netflix bid more money for those rights to The Lord of the rings but surely his proposal was not one of the most attractive because basically what he offered to Tolkien’s descendants was Marvelize the franchise creating a product similar to that of Disney with superheroes but putting Aragorn, Gandalf, etc. in the main focus. We don’t know exactly how something like that can be translated into images inside Middle-earth, but that somewhat simpler approach didn’t convince.

HBO, for its part, also wanted to acquire the rights but he bid with less economic conviction and, also, failed because of the plot proposal that he put on the table and that was summed up in taking what is in the three books that we already saw in Peter Jackson’s films and making his own adaptation on the platform . Needless to say, something like that would be a tostónbecause practically the whole planet knows what happens, in general terms, between The Fellowship of the Ring, The two Towers Y The return of the King.

And finally there was the offer from Amazon, commanded by Patrick McKay and JD Payne, which They preferred to focus on The Appendices of The return of the King where events of the Second Age are told, the fall of Númenor and the forging of the rings of power that, unless you have read them in the novel, you will not have much idea how, where and in what way they end.

So good for Tolkien’s heirs because, for once, the project was more important than the money. Or so they tell us.

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