We’re not far away now from the official premiere of The Lord of the Rings upcoming TV series on Amazon Prime Video, The Rings of Power. The brand new series, which will take place thousands of years ... Music in Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s84_tfEnN_s&list=PLOr_-IIPNbNthokzO0YAwZpnM7gssBgcB Metro 2022-08-29T11:23:44Z It will be based on the appendices of JRR Tolkien’s The Lords of the Rings novels, as well as The Silmarillion, Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-Earth. The series has been developed by showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay, alongside several executive producers, including Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul writer Gennifer Hutchinson. The Rings of Power will be released on Amazon Prime Video. The Rings of Power was reportedly bought by Amazon for $250 million (£213 million) and committed to five seasons of production – the cost for which is rumoured to total $1 billion (£855 million). This would make it the most expensive TV show ever produced. That series is based on the events of a series of novels published by late author Robert Jordan. Jordan’s novels follow incidents in an unnamed world as Moiraine (played by Pike) tracks down those with the power to move the series’ titular wheel. The series will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 2 in the UK, with the first episode, entitled Shadow of the Past, and its follow-up available to all subscribers on the platform at the same time. The premiere arrives five years after the Tolkien Estate and Warner Bros., the studio behind both of Peter Jackson’s trilogies, reached a court settlement. The Tolkien Estate then began offering the rights to a TV series based on Tolkien’s books, and Amazon won the bidding war. As a fan of the series, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was personally involved with the negotiations, hoping to secure the rights to an ambitious fantasy series that could rival Game of Thrones. The first two episodes of The Rings of Power will be made available on September 2 in the UK. Episodes will then be released on a weekly basis from September 9 until October 14, which is when the season finale will be made available. The first season will consist of eight episodes. While Netflix still releases entire seasons in bulk, the traditional weekly release format has proven to be very successful for other streaming platforms like Disney Plus – shows such as WandaVision and The Mandalorian have gained huge success off traditional release structures.
