We are just days away from the release of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which officially launches on Friday 2 September.
It’s been a long wait since Jeff Bezos’s omnipotent Amazon empire in 2017 paid Jrr Tolkien’s estate 250m (£211m) for the rights to set a fantasy series in the world of Middle-earth.
The forthcoming drama is set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. According to the show’s official logline, it promises to “take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness”.
A reported 462m (£398m) has been spent on the first season,...
It’s been a long wait since Jeff Bezos’s omnipotent Amazon empire in 2017 paid Jrr Tolkien’s estate 250m (£211m) for the rights to set a fantasy series in the world of Middle-earth.
The forthcoming drama is set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. According to the show’s official logline, it promises to “take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness”.
A reported 462m (£398m) has been spent on the first season,...
- 8/31/2022
- by Tom Murray
- The Independent - TV
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It’s the battle of the epic fantasies. Nearly two weeks following the release of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon comes the equally anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a prequel from Amazon Prime Video that takes place thousands of years before the events of the previous Peter Jackson films.
It’s an ambitious undertaking from Amazon, with the studio allocating at least 1 billion to five seasons of the J.R.R. Tolkien series (and 465 million alone for the first eight episodes). With no involvement from Jackson, Rings of Power takes a different approach to Tolkien’s Middle-earth, tackling the lore of the Second Age, and diving deeper into the history of the elves.
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It’s the battle of the epic fantasies. Nearly two weeks following the release of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon comes the equally anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a prequel from Amazon Prime Video that takes place thousands of years before the events of the previous Peter Jackson films.
It’s an ambitious undertaking from Amazon, with the studio allocating at least 1 billion to five seasons of the J.R.R. Tolkien series (and 465 million alone for the first eight episodes). With no involvement from Jackson, Rings of Power takes a different approach to Tolkien’s Middle-earth, tackling the lore of the Second Age, and diving deeper into the history of the elves.
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- 8/31/2022
- by Sydney Odman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first reactions to House of the Dragon have arrived, ahead of theGame of Thrones spin-off’s long-awaited launch.
House of the Dragon is set two centuries before “the fall of the throne”, and features a cast including Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke and Rhys Ifans.
In the UK, the show will premiere at 2am on Monday 22 August on Sky Atlantic. The episode will then be repeated at 9pm on Monday, and will be available to stream on Now after its initial airing.
After a glimpse of the first few episodes of the fantasy epic, critics have had mixed responses to the series.
The Independent’s critic Nick Hilton gave House of the Dragon four stars, writing that the show is “bigger, bolder and bloodier than Game of Thrones”.
He added: “It’s immediately clear that, even in the just over 11 years since Thrones first aired, the scale of the world on display has increased.
House of the Dragon is set two centuries before “the fall of the throne”, and features a cast including Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke and Rhys Ifans.
In the UK, the show will premiere at 2am on Monday 22 August on Sky Atlantic. The episode will then be repeated at 9pm on Monday, and will be available to stream on Now after its initial airing.
After a glimpse of the first few episodes of the fantasy epic, critics have had mixed responses to the series.
The Independent’s critic Nick Hilton gave House of the Dragon four stars, writing that the show is “bigger, bolder and bloodier than Game of Thrones”.
He added: “It’s immediately clear that, even in the just over 11 years since Thrones first aired, the scale of the world on display has increased.
- 8/19/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
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