

Undaunted, he perseveres, venturing more deeply into a world that first becomes a passion and then something of a private hallucination. Enveloped by the forest, the explorer and his crew face snakes, piranhas, insects and that most terrifying of threats: other people, who at times bombard the strangers with arrows. Z has never been a terribly special effects-heavy series, but the period setting may have been costly to reproduce.In “The Lost City of Z,” a lush, melancholic story of discovery and mystery, a mesmerizing Charlie Hunnam plays a British adventurer in the Amazon who is consumed by “all the glories of exploration,” as Joseph Conrad once wrote of a different journey.

If Amazon was going to need to shell out millions and millions more for Z Season 2, perhaps writing off that $7 million was the way to go. Amazon is evidently attempting to reduce spending on original series movie forward reducing spending by giving up on $7 million seems rather odd unless the costs of production would have been incredibly high. I have to wonder if filming Z was spectacularly expensive in the first season, given that Amazon was willing to write off $7 million in investment in the second season. Amazon's move to cancel Z: The Beginning of Everything comes at quite a cost. Amazon reportedly spent approximately $7 million on Season 2 before deciding to pull the plug, according to THR. In fact, the show was already in preproduction, with the writers prepping scripts for the second season. The news of the cancellation now comes as a big surprise, as the Z team was hard at work on the second season.
