Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings sequence has solid a reputation for itself. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy was once introduced Wednesday as the total identify of the drama set to debut Sept. 2, with episodes to be launched weekly at the streaming provider.
In a observation, manufacturers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay mentioned the sequence will unite “all of the main tales of Center-earth’s 2d Age,” together with the making of the rings, upward push of the Darkish Lord Sauron, the story of Numenor and the final alliance of Elves and Males.
Amazon went giant at the identify’s unveiling, freeing a video through which the title’s letters are created in steel at a foundry. Descriptive textual content on a video shared via Top learn, “The video opens at the digicam shifting thru what seems to be canyons stuffed with mist. Lower to fireside coming down the canyon, a river of molten lava visual beneath it. Because the voiceover starts, the digicam pulls again to expose we aren’t in a canyon and the molten substance starts to refill what could be symbols or letters. A wave of water flows over it, cooling it as steam is launched. The molten substance darkens and hardens, to expose it’s some type of steel with symbols at the aspect of it. The digicam pulls again in the course of the mists to expose the phrases ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy’ on a wooden background.”
The sequence is about 1000’s of years prior to the occasions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s famed The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit fantasy-adventure novels. It’s going to observe new and acquainted characters confronting the “long-feared re-emergence of evil to Center-earth,” floor that has but to be coated on display screen, Amazon mentioned up to now.
Taping in New Zealand for the multi-season sequence concluded final August. The rustic additionally was once the house for filming of director Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and prequel “The Hobbit” movie trilogies.
The streaming sequence will debut in additional than 200 international locations and territories with a big ensemble solid that incorporates Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Sophia Nomvete and Lloyd Owen.