The show is scheduled to premiere on September 2.
Streaming service Amazon Prime has published a new teaser The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series , which is one of the most expensive in history. The premiere of the show is scheduled for September 2 this year.
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In the 15-second video you can see heroes of the new series, as well as one of the cities where the events will take place. “Nothing is evil in the beginning,” the video says.
Nothing evil in the beginning … # TheRingsOfPower pic.twitter.com/XffZtqp8Yw
– Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) June 27, 2022
The show will take place in the Second Middle Ages , thousands of years before the events described in the novels “The Hobbit, or there and back” and “The Lord of the Rings”. and other. The showrunners were screenwriters Patrick McKay and John D. Payne.
Amazon's plans to shoot a series based on The Lord of the Rings became known in 2017. In 2018, it became known that the production of two seasons of the show will cost the company $ 500 million.
In April 2021, the New Zealand authorities announced that Amazon plans to spend on production of the first season alone 650 million New Zealand dollars (approximately 453 millions of US dollars). This makes the series one of the most expensive in history. By comparison, the production of the three Lord of the Rings films cost $ 280 million.
