One ring to rule them all – again. More than 20 years later The Fellowship of the Ring theatrical release, JRR Tolkien The Lord of the Rings gets another adaptation.
contrary to peter jacksonHowever, the latest version of the beloved fantasy series will air on TV rather than the big screen. Amazon is behind the upcoming TV show, which is expected to become the most expensive series ever made, possibly topping $1 billion in production costs.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the first season alone had a budget of $465 million, and Amazon has already renewed the series for the second season. (For comparison, the six-episode final season of game of thrones would have cost about $15 million per installment.)
Although the show’s budget means it will likely match the epic scale of Jackson’s trilogy, the Oscar-winning director is in no way committed to the Amazon project. “I am not at all involved in the Lord of the Rings series,” he told the French outlet Allocinated in June 2018. “I understand how my name came up, but nothing is happening with me on this project.”
Jackson’s absence may be sad news for some fans, but there are plenty of outstanding talents involved in the show. J.A. Bayona, who led Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, is set to direct the first two episodes of the series, and Charlotte Brandstrom, who worked on Netflix the witcher, also signed on to direct. And while few plot details for the new series have been released, a first photo from August 2021 revealed that the series’ aesthetic appears to be in line with that of the cinematic trilogies.
Since September 2021, the Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore, who wrote the scores for both the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, was in talks to write the music for the new show. Although the veteran maestro has scored films since the 1970s, the the Lord of the Rings the soundtracks remain some of his best-known works.
The Grammy winner was a fan of Tolkien’s work before embarking on the project, and he used the books as references while composing. “It was always open on my desk, and as I was creating thematic ideas and patterns for the film, I was always re-reading the book,” he said. Rhino initiate in April 2018. “All the time, but especially when I was scoring specific scenes. I would go back to the book and read it again to get a taste of the story.
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