jpospich1
Lindon
Oct 6 2022, 7:26pm
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From the article:
At one point, Payne and McKay asked mentor and former boss J.J. Abrams to call Amazon to put in a good word, and he did. “We feel like that moved the needle,” says McKay.
Yet the deciding factor was their fleshed-out story and passion for, and depth of knowledge of, Tolkien’s world. Amazon’s programming team kept coming back to the same conclusion: The guys with perhaps the least experience were also the best choice.
Well, this is very telling.
Payne looks particularly distressed by the topic. “The spirit of Tolkien is about disparate peoples who don’t trust one another and look different from one another finding common ground in friendship and accomplishing big things,” he says.
Is this really the spirit of Tolkien? Or is this the spirit of contemporary social justice activism?
(This post was edited by jpospich1 on Oct 6 2022, 7:28pm)
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