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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
Not everything in the books is going to be BIG SCENE stuff so you can film that in NZ and then move the indoor and more European look stuff can be better filmed here.
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Point is, there’s no need for the big scene stuff to be done in NZ either, and from season 2 onwards it won’t be. Even if they did any ambitious location shooting for s1 they will have been taking note of the massive strides outfits like Lucasfilm have made in recent years (if you have access to Disney +, the making of the Mandalorian series is absolutely fascinating, especially the instalment that focuses on the Volume, which is a 270-degree video wall that replaces a huge amount of the green-screen work a show like that demands).
What’s tragic for NZ is superb news for UK TV production, because Lucasfilm’s Volume is the state of the art and if Amazon is serious about concentrating production of shows like LotR here, sooner or later they’re going to be building that sort of facility here.