The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is a new American fantasy television show based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay created the series for the streaming service Prime Video. Recently, it was reported that each episode of the show will cost more than $50 Million.
The series is based mostly on the chapters of The Lord of the Rings, which also include exposition of the Second Age, and it stars a big, international ensemble. It is not a straight sequel of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies for legal concerns.
‘Lord of the Rings’ To Spend $58 Million Per Episode
Only a few days ago, People were amazed by Netflix’s $30 million per episode Stranger Things season four budget. And now, Lord of the Rings says, “Hold my mead.”
Variety reported that the first season of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will be eight episodes long with a budget of $465 million. This works out to $58 million per episode. Two episodes of the Lord of the Rings show will cost more than Game of Thrones’ final eight-episode season.
Speaking of Thrones, House of the Dragon has a $20 million/per episode budget. How will it cost less than Stranger Things, despite the numerous dragons flying around? Not to mention all the expensive wigs. “The production insider says HBO is now so adept at these world-building series through years of not just Game of Thrones but also producing Westworld and His Dark Materials, that the team can make a high-quality series as efficiently and effectively as possible,” Variety reports.
Only the largest streaming services can spend vast sums of money on fantasy novel adaptations, yet even the smallest person can affect the course of history.
Cast Of The Upcoming Show
In the upcoming show you will see Robert Aramayo as Elrond, Owain Arthur as Durin IV: prince of the Dwarven city of Khazad-dûm, Maxim Baldry as Isildur, Nazanin Boniadi as Bronwyn, Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor, Lenny Henry as a Harfoot elder and many more.
Synopsis Of The LOTR: Rings Of Power
The series is based on author J. R. R. Tolkien’s history of Middle-earth and is set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
It begins in a period of relative calm and covers all of Middle earth’s Second Age key events, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the destruction of the island kingdom of Numerator, and the final union between Elves and Men.
In Tolkien’s original stories, these events took place across thousands of years, but they are reduced for the series.
The Official synopsis as per IMDb, “Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.”
The upcoming show is all set to release on 2 September 2022. It will release on Amazon Prime Video.
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