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The Rings of Power Season 2 Trailer: Full Story Reveals Sauron’s Powers, Elf Manipulaton & Galadriel Rematch
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power showrunners reveal the real reason why production moved away from New Zealand for season 2. Based on the source material from J.R.R. Tolkien, Prime Video’s hit fantasy series released in 2022, chronicling the Galadriel’s (Morfydd Clark) fight against the rise of evil in Middle-earth during the second age. As with Peter Jackson’s beloved 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 U.K.
In a recent interview with GQ, the real reasons behind The Rings of Power‘s move out of New Zealand are revealed. According to showrunners Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, New Zealand’s strict COVID-19 protocols played a role, as it simply became unfeasible to mount such a large production there. Secondly, Amazon was, at the time, expanding its production capabilities in the U.K. According to the showrunners, however, these logistical reasons ended up making the show feel closer to Tolkien’s own work. Check out Payne and McKay’s comments below:
Payne: “Amazon was building out its production apparatus here in the UK and it’s one of their largest shows. They wanted to bring it all under the same roof.”
McKay: “We’re shooting in Windsor Great Park with trees that are a thousand years old that he might well have looked at and written about. It’s a different landscape, a different weather pattern. And all of that feeds into the kind of Middle-earth that is even closer to the one that readers might 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 to screens the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history for the very first time. Set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power will explore a time in the franchise where kingdoms rose and fell, where The One Ring itself was forged and tells the tale of the rise of the greatest foe in the Lord of the Rings Franchise, the Dark Lord Sauron. Beginning in a time of peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of familiar and new characters as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil in Middle-earth. From the depths of the Misty Mountains to the forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the island kingdom of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, The Rings of Power promises to condense the extended works of Tolkien in a condensed but all-encompassing TV show format. The first season of The Rings of Power began airing exclusively on Prime Video on September 2, 2022
- Cast
- 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
- September 1, 2022
- Seasons
- 1
- Network
- Amazon Prime Video
- Writers
- Patrick McKay , John D. Payne , J.R.R. Tolkien , Justin Doble , Jason Cahill , Gennifer Hutchison , Stephany Folsom , Nicholas Adams
- Directors
- J.A. Bayona , Sanaa Hamri
- Showrunner
- John D. Payne , Patrick McKay , Louise Hooper , Charlotte Brändström , Wayne Yip
