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"Lord of the Rings" TV Series to Premiere in 2022


Tue 03 Aug 2021 | 04:47 PM
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The release date for Amazon’s highly-anticipated originals TV series, "Lord of the Rings", has finally been revealed.

The yet-to-be-titled series is set to debut on Prime Video on Friday, September 2, 2022, with new episodes dropping weekly.

Amazon has also shared the first official photo from the upcoming series, which will be set in Middle-earth’s Second Age.

The series will take place thousands of years before the events of J. R. R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" books and will follow new and old characters, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.

On August 2, filming wrapped on the first season of the show in New Zealand.

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The fantasy series stars Sir Lenny Henry, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Ema Horvath, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Charles Edwards, and others.

It is produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins, and New Line Cinema, a pision of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay will serve as executive producers and showrunners of the series.

They are joined by executive producers Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, who is also a director on the series, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, as well as Sharon Tal Yguado, co-executive producer and director Wayne Che Yip, director Charlotte Brändström, and producer Christopher Newman.

In November 2017, it was reported that a “Lord of the Rings” series was in the works at Amazon, with the streamer announcing a multi-season production commitment shortly afterward.