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The Rings of Power Season 2 Trailer: The Full Story Reveals Sauron’s Powers, Elf Manipulation and Galadriel Rematch
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power The showrunners reveal the real reason why production moved out of New Zealand for season 2. Prime Video’s hit fantasy series is based on JRR Tolkien’s source material and was released in 2022. It tells the story of Galadriel (Morfydd Clark)’s fight against the rise of evil in Middle Earth during the Second Age. As with Peter Jackson’s popular trilogy, season 1 was filmed in New Zealand, but The Rings of Power Season 2, which premieres later this month, made the controversial decision to move production to the UK
In a recent interview with GQthe real reasons behind The Rings of Powers move from New Zealand is announced. According to showrunners Patrick McKay and JD Payne, New Zealand’s strict COVID-19 protocols played a role, as it simply wasn’t feasible to mount such a large production there. Second, Amazon was expanding its production capabilities in the UK at the time. However, according to the showrunners, these logistical reasons led to the show moving closer to Tolkien’s own work. Check out Payne and McKay’s comments below:
Payne: “Amazon was building up its production apparatus here in the UK and it’s one of their biggest shows. They wanted to bring everything under one roof.”
McKay: “We’re shooting in Windsor Great Park with thousand-year-old trees that he might have looked at and written about. It’s a different landscape, a different weather pattern. And all of that contributes to a kind of Middle Earth that’s even closer to the one readers imagine in the books.”
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Source: GQ
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history to the big screen for the first time ever. Set thousands of years before the events of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the series explores a time in the franchise when kingdoms rose and fell, when the One Ring itself was forged, and tells the story of the rise of the Lord of the Rings franchise’s greatest enemy, the Dark Lord Sauron. Beginning in a time of peace, the series follows an ensemble of familiar and new characters as they confront the long-feared return of evil in Middle-earth. From the depths of the Misty Mountains, to the forests of the elven capital of Lindon and the island kingdom of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, The Rings of Power promises to distill Tolkien’s vast works into a condensed but all-encompassing TV show format. The first season of The Rings of Power premiered exclusively on Prime Video on September 2, 2022.
- Pour
- Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Charlie Vickers, Markella Kavenagh, Megan Richards, Sara Zwangobani, Daniel Weyman, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Lenny Henry, Lloyd Owen, Nazanin Boniadi, Dylan Smith, Alex Tarrant, Tyroe Muhafidin, Robert Aramayo, Geoff Morrell , Thusitha Jayasundera, Maxine Cunliffe
- Release date
- 1 September 2022
- Seasons
- 1
- network
- Amazon Prime Video
- Authors
- Patrick McKay, John D. Payne, JRR Tolkien, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Stephany Folsom, Nicholas Adams
- Directors
- JA Bayona, Sanaa Hamri
- Showrunner
- John D. Payne, Patrick McKay, Louise Hooper, Charlotte Brändström, Wayne Yip
