Amazon Lord of the Rings show gets 2022 premiere date, first image

Amazon’s original Lord of the Rings series premieres Sept. 2, 2022, Amazon Studios introduced on Monday. The corporate mentioned filming of the primary season simply wrapped up in New Zealand.

The collection, which doesn’t but have a title, will cowl Middle-earth’s Second Age, Amazon mentioned in Monday’s assertion: “Starting in a time of relative peace, hundreds of years earlier than the occasions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books, the collection follows an ensemble solid of characters, each acquainted and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Center-earth.”

Amazon announced in late 2017 that it was producing an unique collection based mostly on Tolkien’s fantasy franchise, at the side of e-book writer HarperCollins, the Tolkien Property and Belief, and New Line Cinema, the distributor of the 2001-2003 trilogy directed by Peter Jackson.

Charlotte Brändström, who has directed episodes of The Witcher and Outlander, is aboard as this collection’ director. J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay are the showrunners and government producers.

Actors showing within the ensemble solid embody: Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.

The Hollywood Reporter, in April, reported that the first season of the show will cost $465 million to provide, on high of the $250 million the corporate spent on the rights to the franchise. That will make this the most expensive television production, ever, by a large margin. By comparability, the final season of HBO’s Sport of Thrones price $90 million, and Disney spent about $100 million on the primary 12 months of The Mandalorian.