When you sink around $1bn into a new worldwide TV spectacular you’ll no doubt be looking for a significant return on your investment. After watching the first two episodes of Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, I’ve got a pretty good inkling of how Amazon is hoping to make its money back.
By flogging thousands of expensive big screen TVs - so viewers can truly appreciate the full cinematic wonder of this J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece. The special effects in this prequel could very well blow his Peter Jackson’s pair of Tolkien trilogies out of the water - and that’s before we’ve even seen the most spectacular of the promised battle scenes.
Put it this way, I wouldn’t be surprised to see some Targaryan dragons looking nervously over their shoulders when this drops tomorrow.
