As the wait draws to a close, Amazon presents an extensive trailer for its series. the rings of powerconceived as a prequel to Lord of the Rings.
The action of this series, broadcast from next September 2, takes place “thousands of years” before the events narrated by JRR Tolkien in The Hobbit Y Lord of the Rings.
“It was a time when the world was so young that it hadn’t even seen a sunrise,” says a voice in the trailer.
“The trailer lifts the veil on the kingdoms to be discovered over the course of 8 episodes, indicates Prime Video, including the elven kingdoms of Lindon and Eregion, Khazad-dûm the Kingdom of the Dwarves, the Southlands, the Northernmost desert Waste, the seas of Sundering and the legendary island of Númenor.”
Most expensive series in history
We also discover the faces of the main actors of the series, Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), Gil-Galad (Benjamin Walker), the Harfoots, ancestors of the Hobbits: Marigold Brandyfoot (Sara Zwangobani), Elanor” Nori “ Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenagh), Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards) and Zadoc Burrows (Sir Lenny Henry), the Stranger (Daniel Weyman), the Dwarves: King Durin III (Peter Mullan) and Prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur), Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) and Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova).
This is a very important project for Amazon Studios, which has been working on this series since 2017 and has spent, according to Variety, 250 million dollars to acquire the rights to Tolkien’s work and an additional 465 million dollars to shoot the eight episodes of the same. the first season which makes it the most expensive television series in history. Prime Video plans to shoot five seasons.
the literary trilogy Lord of the Ringspublished in the 1950s, has already been adapted to the cinema by peter jackson between 2001 and 2003. The action of power rings takes place thousands of years before the events of the original saga, as revealed by Amazon last year:
(The series) will immerse viewers in a time when great powers are forged, kingdoms are victorious and then destroyed, unlikely heroes face great challenges, hope hangs in the balance, and the greatest villain to ever emerge from Tolkien’s pen threatens to engulf the world. in its darkness.”
Source: BFM TV
