The Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power series in Amazon has planned out 5 seasons with clear vision of their final shot.
Empire features showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay, along with executive producer and director JA Bayona in their latest issue. The article boasts the upcoming series is beginning with its end in mind.
Payne teases:
We even know what our final shot of the last episode is going to be. 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
The Lord Of The Rings Amazon Plots 5 Seasons To End
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The showrunners actually planned this as a multi-year series that will tell a different perspective within a beloved world. Producer Ron Ames is on board with this plan.
PunkBeast has already posted about the core plans of the series way back February this year. As the show delves into the creation of the rings, it also takes audiences to other vast regions of Tolkien’s world. These places include the Misty Mountains, the elven kingdom of Lindon and the island Numenor.
Even though there have been mixed impressions from long-time fans, the creators emphasize that their interpretation of the story is still within Tolkien’s grand design. The entirety of the series aims to bring forth new dimensions to characters already familiar to the viewers. At the same time, introduce new characters that will strengthen the series’ intended narrative.
Payne explains:
It was like Tolkien put some stars in the sky and let us make out the constellations. In his letters [particularly in one to his publisher], Tolkien talked about wanting to leave behind a mythology that ‘left scope for other minds and hands, wielding the tools of paint, music and drama.’ We’re doing what Tolkien wanted. As long as we felt like every invention of ours was true to his essence, we knew we were on the right track.
The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power series stars Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Robert Aramayo as Elrond, Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor and Benjamin Walker as High King Gill-galad. In one of the three covers of Empire magazine, it displays Clark saying:
Don’t expect the same Galadriel.
The Lord Of The Rings Amazon Plots 5 Seasons To End
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In McKay’s words:
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. It came from Tolkien and we’re just the stewards of it. We trust those ideas so deeply, because they’re not ours. We’re custodians, at best.
There is truly a relief in the knowledge that the storyline has a set number of episodes and a plotted flow. This ensures that they have the whole picture of the masterpiece in sight.
The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power starts streaming from 2 September.
