Middle-earth is coming to television with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon Studios’ most ambitious series yet. Production, which It costs more than 1,000 million dollarswill adapt several stories set in the world of JRR Tolkien.

To make this vision a reality, the North American giant has hired many creatives: JA Bayona directs the first two episodes, while Wayne Yip tackled four more. Charlotte Brändström is the last confirmed director, working on two episodes. Screenwriting is in charge of screenwriters such as Jason Cahill, Justin Doble, Helen Shang or Stephany Folsom. JD Payne and Patrick McKay as Master of Ceremony.

Illustrator John Howe, who has worked with Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, will return to the Amazon series. For the soundtrack, Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander, The Walking Dead) was one of the picks, but not the only one. In an interview with Variety, it has been revealed that el composer Howard Shore, also a musician in the Jackson adaptation, was present on the project. Funnily enough, this section has been removed from the text. Here are the keys to this series:

• Where is it chronologically located? official synopsis
• What stories can they adapt?
• Release date, where to watch and how many episodes it has
• Cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Where is it chronologically located? official synopsis

The plot of The Rings of Power takes place before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Both stories take place during the Third Age of Middle-earth, while the prequel includes a series of plots that take place in the Second Age. In short and paraphrasing the teaser trailer:“Before the king, before the Community, before the ring”. Here’s the official synopsis.

“It started in relatively peaceful times. The series follows a cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they take on the dreaded rise of evil in Middle Earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of Lindon, the capital of the elves, through the wondrous island kingdom of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will create a legacy that will last a long time. after they left.”

Based on Master of Ceremony of the series, JD Payne and Patrick McKay, “this is the title Iwe imagined I could live on the back of a book along with other Tolkien classics. In this way, The Rings of Power brings together all the main stories of the Second Age of Middle-earth. Those in charge of the series recall that until now, “the public had only seen the story of One Ring on screen”, but before Sauron created it, “before there was one, there were many” rings.

What stories can they adapt?

JD Payne has solved one of the most difficult problems in production. not known for sure what are the rights to JRR Tolkien’s works? I have bought Amazon. In an article published by Variety, the showrunners confirmed exactly which works they could adapt to the small screen. They are as follows:

• Hobbits
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• Lord of the Rings: Guild of the Rings
• Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
• The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

This means that unless they acquire the rights to the next season, Amazon won’t be able to capture any plots from The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth or The Story of Middle-earth. “There are versions of everything we need from the Second Age in the books we own the rights to.”

Release date, where to watch and how many episodes it has

Amazon Prime Video will be the goal of this production, which is being financed by Jeff Bezos’ own company. The premiere of the first season is scheduled for September 2, 2022. As in other series on the platform, the episodes won’t all debut at the same time, but will do so week after week.

We still don’t know the titles eight episodes which will be the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. What we do know for sure is that the series will have at least a second season.

Details are offered with a dropper, but it has been confirmed that season 2 will not be picked up in New Zealand, but will be picked up in the UK. There it will begin pre-production early 2022while the first post-production will last until the summer of this year.

Cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Although several characters appear in the film adaptation of Peter Jackson, Amazon has decided to pick another actor. Meaning, we won’t be looking at Hugo Weaving with Elrond or Cate Blanchett as Galadriel, to name a few examples. Some of the actors who participated in the first season are as follows:

• Morfydd Clark (Galadriel)
• Benjamin Walker (Rey Gilgalad)
• Nazanin Boniadi (Bronwyn)
• Robert Aramayo (Elrond)
• Cynthia Addai-Robinson
• Ismael Cruz Cordova (Arondir)
• Charles Edwards (Celebrity)
• Maxim Baldry (Isildur)
• Sophia Nomvete (Disa)
• Charlie Vickers (Halbrand)
• Owain Arthur (Principe Durin IV)
• Lloyd Owen
• Simon Merrells
• Alex Tarrant
• Peter Mullan
• Lenny Henry
• Augustus Prew
• Trystan’s Gravel