The “Citadel” thing sure sounds like an accumulation of disasters. To start this project that has Anthony and Joe Russo as executive producers, he ran into the pandemic, with all that that implies; but it is also that, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the series had to face a very expensive internal war. Conceived as a global event with the potential to launch several local spin-offs, “Citadel” was born from the creative union formed by the aforementioned filmmakers and television veterans Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec, a team that ended up as the rosary of ‘Sunrise.
According to the aforementioned medium, the differences ended up causing half of the aforementioned creative team to leave, a split resulting in a return to filming which would have meant a considerable outlay for Prime Video. The Russos were betting on a different version than what Appelbaum and Nemec had in mind, something that ended up joining the very taste of Amazon, which was dubious about the first material. Finally, said studio has decided to bet on the approach of the famous brothers who have given so much economic joy to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame’; triggering the need for some takes that made the project more expensive and causing the incorporation of David Weil to rewrite the material.
Thomas Sigel, director of several episodes, would incarnate to record additional scenes for this seven-episode series that already cost at least $ 160 million, and that added an expense of around $ 75 million, and would be well on its way to becoming the second most expensive series in history.. This lack of budgetary control of “Citadel” also joins that caused by another mega-production recently launched by the house, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”, an even more expensive television drama whose rights amount to 250 million and the cost of the first season would be about 465. Prime Video therefore ran into two projects that were too big around the budget, an economic item that in the case of ‘Citadel’ already amounts to over 250 million dollars, not only because of the reshoot, but for the investment destined to apply the necessary COVID-19 protocols.
all trust
The case of ‘Citadel’ underlines that the industry has full faith in the Russo brothers, a tandem that always ends up being very expensive. One of the latest examples is ‘The Invisible Agent’, a film on which even Netflix has spent more than 250 million. This film became the most expensive on the platform to end up occupying the fourth place in the ranking of the most viewed films. We will see if “Citadel” will be able to compensate with opinions the enormous economic effort it is making and if the public will accompany it so that its ambitious vision takes hold. With Priyanka Chopra and Richard Madden, this proposal plans to inspire new series set in India, Italy or Mexico, for which it must garner some success. Start point? Very simple: the best spies in the world come together to form the ultimate team and succeed in an important and difficult mission.
* “Citadel” is currently in its post-production phase and no release date has yet been set.
Source: E Cartelera
