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After the end of the S14 World Finals, all players are most looking forward to the broadcast of the second season of "Battle of Two Cities", which will be officially announced on November 9.

Everyone has been waiting for three years to watch this series, and Riot has worked overtime to finally produce it.

The cost of "Battle of Two Cities 2" was revealed, costing 700 million

The first season of "Battle of Two Cities" took six years, and it was also an animation production plan that Riot started as early as 2015, and it was also a money-burning masterpiece, Riot through continuous attempts and efforts, with the production team to present a sincere masterpiece to all League of Legends players, with a rating of up to 9.0 on Douban, which has been well received by players.

The story of the first season of "Battle of Two Cities" is more used to foreshadow, and some of the growth processes of the main characters of the Two Cities are shown to everyone, and the characters in it are not what everyone imagined at the beginning, such as the explosion when he was young, how he became Jinx, for example, how Victor embarked on the road of mechanical ascension, and how Jace became the "guardian of the future".

And in the second season, there will be more exciting battle pictures for the audience, and the characters in it will basically reach the strongest form, and there will be various gods fighting at that time, which is the point that everyone is most looking forward to.

While the audience was waiting, the American "Variety" magazine reported that the production cost of the second season of "Battle of Two Cities" was even higher than that of the first season, with a total cost of 100 million US dollars, equivalent to 718 million yuan.

Riot's brainchild, for all LOL players

The total production cost of the first season of "Battle of Two Cities" was $80 million, and it took six years to make 9 episodes of exquisite animation.

In the case of the experience of the completion of the first season, there may be two main reasons for the cost increase, the first is that Riot needs to produce the nine episodes of the second season in a shorter time, because everyone is in a hurry, the first season took six years, and the second season only took half the time of the first season, which requires the production team to work harder and harder, and the cost is higher.

The second is that the second season will have more explosive battle pictures, which will be more visually impactful, and the cost of this part will definitely be greater than that of the first season.

In short, LOL players complain about a series of funny operations of Riot almost every day, but in the part of "Battle of Two Cities", Riot can be said to have no black spots, and it is indeed doing it seriously, and Riot is destined to lose money by doing this animation, but Riot is to open up a new world in different fields of League of Legends through this animation.

If the second season is successful, the film project will be restarted

Personally, I think that if the second season of "Battle of Two Cities" can also be successful, then Riot can launch a series of follow-up plans, American variety show revealed, in fact, Riot had previously approached Marvel's production team and wanted to release a movie for League of Legends, but in the end the plan failed, and it lost more than $5 million.

It can be seen that Riot's ambition is greater, and it wants to make League of Legends cause a national carnival on the big screen, but it failed, so it can only open a breakthrough from the animated series first, and do the animation of "Battle of Two Cities", after success, Riot will be more able to attract the production team of the movie, and then it is logical to cooperate.

As for how "Battle of Two Cities" can be considered successful, I personally think that as long as it maintains the good level of the first season and achieves a steady landing, it will be considered a success, the key point is that the plot and character settings should be reasonable enough, create more dramatic contradictions from the perspectives of different characters, break out a series of dramatic conflicts, and enjoy the duel between the characters in the process.

After the success of this series, as LOL players, we also have a wish, that is, we hope that Riot will put the League of Legends movie plan on the agenda as soon as possible, if it can produce a League of Legends movie, presumably the box office will be very high, and Riot's previous loss-making investment may be all earned back at once.