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In light of the wide spread of the highly contagious new Delta variant, the New Zealand government has said that the current border restrictions will remain in place at least until 2022.Ī move to the UK will allow the British cast to stay close to home. The lockdown also prevented Amazon executives from visiting the sets to monitor the high-profile - and hugely expensive - shoot.

Because of how New Zealand has tackled Covid, closing its borders to keep the virus away, the cast of the show, more than half of whom are British, stayed in the country for about two years without being able to spend holidays with their families.

The pandemic, which no one anticipated when the series was first greenlit, impacted the show’s production which was shut down - like virtually all American series - at the onset of the global outbreak in March 2020.

“As we look to relocate the production to the UK, we do not intend to actively pursue the Season One MoU five percent financial uplift with the New Zealand government or preserve the terms around that agreement, however we respectfully defer to our partners and will remain in close consultation with them around next steps,” said Albert Cheng, COO & Co-Head of TV, Amazon Studios. Amazon will now not pursue the 5% increase as the production would no longer meet all criteria for it. Tolkien, on whose works the series is based, is English, and Tolkien reportedly based the Shire’s landscapes, climate, flora, fauna on rural England, LOTR is closely associated with New Zealand where Peter Jackson filmed his Oscar-winning film trilogy.īased in Auckland, the $465 million first season of LOTR qualified for a 20% tax rebate from New Zealand’s Screen Production Grant, which was increased to 25% ($116 million) this past spring. Senators Propose Corporate Minimum Tax For Build Back Better Plan