Amazon's ambitious project will cost the studio at least a billion dollars - because only the rights to create the series on the "Lord of the Rings" had to lay out 250 million dollars (and another 750 will go directly to production). The amount is not just big - a record, and therefore it is not surprising that Elijah Wood still can not believe it:
"This madness is some. Nowadays, this would not happen, because the heirs of Tolkien did not even know than they own. All this is the product of that world in which we live today. Now they already know how valuable their inheritance, how profitable it can be. "
It seems that Elija is even glad that the trilogy "Lord of the Rings" with his participation was removed in 2000s, and not today - because the result, according to the actor, would be completely different:
"That was especially awesome in the" Lord of the Rings ", so this is what he felt like an independent movie, shot by New Line in New Zealand, sort of like" hidden "from curious eyes. If such a film was removed today, it would have happened at all other circumstances, the scale would be completely different. This, of course, does not mean that such a film would not have a soul. It would be simple to keep it easy. "