I wasn't aware of that. Basically tells me that they're creating everything from scratch essentially. The more you draw upon fractional lore, the reduced are the returns. See Star Wars, Matrix, Harry Potter... essentially every series where they can't help but milk every dime.
Final season of GOT...
About freaking time Gandalf got involved here.
Awful season. All this buildup with no real payoff. You can't just kill major characters and have others make decisions outside of what previous seasons stressed again and again. No TV show should go more than 4-5 seasons as you lose your creative arc.
Tolkien estate is extremely combative and protective. My guess is they simply wouldn't budge regardless of the $ that were tossed at them. I can't believe they still sold it at $250M, but when you're Jeff Bezos and you intend to get something done no matter what, that's like going out to Texas Roadhouse for an evening.
