On September 2, 2022, a new journey begins. https://t.co/9tnR7WqDoA
The wait will no longer be very long for fans of the Lord of the Rings. The big-budget series, created from the fantasy saga of JRR Tolkien, will be broadcast worldwide from September 2, 2022, announced Monday, August 2, which Amazon hopes to compete with. Game Of Thrones.
Amazon, which acquired the television rights to this cult work in 2017, for an estimated sum of $ 250 million, said in a statement that the “Shooting of the first season [s’était] completed today [lundi] in New Zealand “.
Set in Middle-earth and featuring some emblematic characters from the saga, the series begins with new adventures taking place “In a period of relative peace, thousands of years before the events of the books “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” by JRR Tolkien “Amazon Studios added.
Making a difference in the streaming market
The episodes of the first season will be broadcast week after week, said the group, which released a first image of the series Monday on social networks.
The cast includes Cynthia Addai-Robinson, known for her role in the series Spartacus, and Robert Amarayo, who starred in Game Of Thrones, which has become in eight seasons a monument of the fantasy genre.
With this adaptation over several seasons of Tolkien’s literary phenomenon, already successfully resumed in cinema in the 2000s, Amazon hopes to score points in the merciless battle waged by its distribution platform Prime Video, against Netflix and Disney in particular.
The American giant founded by Jeff Bezos acquired at the end of May, for 8.45 billion dollars, the almost century-old Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which allowed it to add to its repertoire of great classics such as James Bond, Rocky where the Silence of the Lambs.