George RR Martin hopes he will have more success than Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings

Next summer fans of the fantasy genre will have something to discuss. In fact they will arrive on TV, respectively on 22 August on Sky and in streaming on NOW and on September 2 on Prime Video, House of the Dragon And The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, two highly anticipated titles. The competition between the two massive productions began a few weeks ago when HBO announced the release date of the spin-off de Game of thrones, but it has officially come alive now. The merit (or the blame) is usual George RR Martinthe author of the books that inspired both game of Thrones than its first spin-off, which is used to not mincing words. Host of a literary festival in Santa Fe, the writer talked about the future clash between the HBO TV series and that of Prime Video, hoping that House of the Dragonof which he is executive producer and author, is still more successful than de The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

House of the Dragon VS The Lord of the Rings: George RR Martin is competitive

Martin, who said he was thrilled that the fantasy genre has so much space on TV lately, speaking with The Independent he stressed that it was the same journalists who spoke of the “battle for fantasy supremacy” between the two series. However, he hinted that the competition is feeling all right. “I hope both series are successful. I am quite competitive. Hope we do better. If they win six Emmys, and I hope they do, I hope we win seven. However, all of this is good for fantasy. I love fantasy, I love science fiction. I want there to be more shows of this type on television, “explained the author of de A Song of Ice and Fire.

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A battle also with budget blows

House of the Dragon is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones and traces the events that led to the disastrous collapse and the end of the Targaryen dominion. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerinstead, it brings the heroic legends of the mythical Second Era of Middle-earth history to the screen for the first time and takes place thousands of years before the events narrated in The Hobbit And The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. House of the Dragonaccording to sources close to the production cited by Variety, it cost just under $ 20 million per episode (therefore about 200 million dollars for a first season of 10 episodes), a figure however higher than that used for the eighth season of Game of thrones ($ 15 million per episode). With a majestic budget of approx 464 million dollarshowever, the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in this respect it already beats its competitor and is the most expensive project ever made at Prime Video.