Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Five Seasons Confirmed; Final Shot Already Planned

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will feature 50 hours of episodes over five seasons.

By David Delima | Updated: 7 June 2022 17:07 IST

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Five Seasons Confirmed; Final Shot Already Planned

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Tyroe Muhafidin plays the role of Theo in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Highlights

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will premiere on September 2
The show’s creators shared fresh looks at the series on Monday
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings new plot, characters

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — the LOTR prequel series coming to Prime Video later this year — will run for another five years, according to the series' showrunner. The series has been confirmed for five seasons, with 50 hours' worth of episodes. The final shot from the upcoming series has already been planned, and the streaming service on Monday shared fresh looks at The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series that will premiere on September 2 on Amazon Prime Video.

Set across five seasons, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will focus on the stories of elves, dwarves, harfoots, and other mystical beings and is set in the second age of Middle-earth. "The rights that Amazon bought were for a 50-hour show. They knew from the beginning that was the size of the canvas — this was a big story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. There are things in the first season that don't pay off until season 5," series showrunner J.D. Payne revealed in an interview with Empire, along with fresh looks at the upcoming series.

Back in 2018, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the series had a five-season commitment that was said to cost Amazon over a billion dollars (roughly Rs. 75,000 crore) over five seasons. The show reportedly had a budget of over $450 million (roughly Rs. 3,400 crore) for the first season, because it involved creating the infrastructure that would last the series' run.

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And while The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power may be confirmed for five seasons, Payne adds that the creators already have their work planned out for future. "We even know what our final shot of the last episode is going to be," he added. The plot for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will feature new additions to the lore from author J.R.R Tolkien, but co-showrunner Patrick McKay says that the series will follow Tolkien's wish to “leave behind a mythology that ‘left scope for other minds and hands, wielding the tools of paint, music, and drama.'”

It sounds like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will manage to keep in touch with the vision Tolkien had in mind for the Lord of the Rings. “The pressure would drive us insane if we didn't feel like there was a story here that didn't come from us. It comes from a bigger place,” McKay explains, adding that the show's creators were merely the “stewards” of the story that came from Tolkien. “We trust those ideas so deeply, because they're not ours. We're custodians, at best,” he adds.

“It was like Tolkien put some stars in the sky and let us make out the constellations... As long as we felt like every invention of ours was true to his essence, we knew we were on the right track,” McKay explains, adding that The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has adapted appendices in Tolkien's work.

The upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power stars Markella Kavenagh, Morfydd Clark, Robert Aramayo, Sophia Nomvete, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.

The first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is set to debut on September 2 on Amazon Prime Video, with a new episode streaming every week in over 240 territories, according to the streaming service.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1

Release Date 2 September 2022
Genre Adventure, Fantasy
Cast
Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete
Director
J. A. Bayona, Wayne Che Yip, Charlotte Brändström
Producer
J. D. Payne, Patrick McKay, Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J. A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, Sharon Tal Yguado

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