Avengers directors were paid $5 million for not adapting League of Legends

In 2021, Netflixs League of Legends animated TV show, Arcanebecame one of the biggest hits in years for the streaming giant. However, beyond that Arcane, Lol Studio Riot Games reportedly had difficulty developing the MOBA game into a larger entertainment franchise. Part of the problem appears to be a lack of experience, which led to Riot Games having to pay two famous directors $5 million not make one League of Legends Film.

In a new report from diversity via Riot Games and make his experiments League of Legends When it came to the next big Hollywood franchise, it was revealed that the video game studio was working on one with Anthony and Joe Russo a few years ago League of Legends Film. The Russo brothers are known for helping make Marvel’s incredible success avenger sequels, Infinity War And Endgame.

diversity reports that Riot at one point “reconsidered” the creative approach the company was taking with the Russos, which ultimately cost the studio a lot of money. The Russo brothers were reportedly paid $5 million to exit the project due to a poorly negotiated contract with the directors.

Representatives for the Russos and Riot declined to provide it diversity with a comment on the failed film project.

Riot co-founder and chief product officer Marc Merril told diversity that the company continues to specialize in producing television shows and films, but acknowledged that it is still learning how to do that.

“Our ambitions in the entertainment industry have not changed,” Merrill said diversity. “We never intended to work like a traditional studio with traditional schedules. What did

The more we learned, the more our expectations of ourselves changed: we realized that getting everything right takes a lot more time than we originally expected, and that’s why we developed, our output targets and our teams have been recalibrated against this background.”

When diversity asked about the $250 million budget for it Arcane‘S For the first two seasons, Merril did not confirm the price, but added: “We are more than happy with the expenditure necessary to deliver a show worthy of our players’ time.”

With ArcaneThe second season will be released on November 9thNow that the show has ended, we’ll have to wait and see if Riot has learned to keep making TV and movies, or if it will be years before their next big project.

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