Are you prepared to head again to Center Earth? Amazon Studios revealed the title and trailer Wednesday for its extremely anticipated prequel to the “Lord of the Rings” series, referred to as “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy.”
The series will debut on Prime Video on Sept. 2.
“The Rings of Energy” is about in the Second Age of Center Earth, 1000’s of years earlier than the occasions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”
The series “will take viewers again to an period during which nice powers had been cast, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to break, unlikely heroes had been examined, hope hung by the most interesting of threads, and the best villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cowl all the world in darkness,” Amazon mentioned in its YouTube description for the trailer.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tweeted a picture of himself holding an enormous slab of wooden with the series title on it. “Can’t wait for you to see it,” he wrote.
IGN has behind-the-scenes particulars on how the title sequence was created, and it wasn’t with CGI, however fairly with molten steel and a “hunk of reclaimed redwood.”
Amazon first introduced that it had acquired the rights to adapt Tolkien’s work in 2017.
“’The Lord of the Rings’ is a cultural phenomenon that has captured the creativeness of generations of followers by literature and the massive display screen,” Sharon Tal Yguado, head of Scripted Series for Amazon Studios, mentioned in a press release at the time.
Tolkien’s e book series was named Amazon clients’ favourite e book of the millennium in 1999. Director Peter Jackson’s theatrical diversifications included “The Fellowship of the Ring” (2001); “The Two Towers” (2002); and “The Return of the King” (2003). The movies grossed practically $6 billion worldwide and gained a mixed 17 Academy Awards, together with Greatest Image for “King.”
