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Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings adds The Witcher director Charlotte Brändström

May 14, 2021 by Liam Waddington

The first season of Amazon’s highly-anticipated fantasy series Lord of the Rings has added Netflix’s The Witcher director Charlotte Brändström to helm two episodes alongside a creative team including J.A. Bayona (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) who will direct the first two episodes, British Chinese director Wayne Che Yip who will helm four episodes and showrunners JD Payne and Patrick […]

Filed Under: Liam Waddington, News, Television Tagged With: Amazon, Charlotte Brändström, The Lord of the Rings

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings cost $465 million for one season, will be “the largest television series ever made”

April 17, 2021 by Liam Waddington

The first season of Amazon’s highly-anticipated fantasy series Lord of the Rings has reportedly cost the streaming service roughly NZ$650 million – which translates to $465 million in U.S. dollars. “What I can tell you is Amazon is going to spend about $650 million in season one alone,” Stuart Nash, the country’s Minister for Economic Development and […]

Filed Under: Liam Waddington, News, Television Tagged With: Amazon, The Lord of the Rings

First gameplay from The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum revealed

March 28, 2021 by Andrew Newton

Daedalic Entertainment has treated us pesky gamers with a brief glimpse of the gameplay for the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Being Gollum in Middle-Earth is not easy and there’s always someone that poses a threat.  Check out some of what Gollum has to go through in the teaser below… After being a […]

Filed Under: Andrew Newton, News, Trailers, Video Games Tagged With: Daedalic Entertainment, The Lord of the Rings, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings enlists director Wayne Che Yip

March 27, 2021 by Gary Collinson

Amazon Studios has announced that British-Chinese director Wayne Che Yip has joined the directing team for the upcoming The Lord of the Rings TV series, as well as serving as co-executive producer. Yip has previously directed episodes of The Wheel of Time, Hunters, Preacher, Channel 4’s Utopia and Doctor Who, and will be helming four episodes […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Amazon, The Lord of the Rings, Wayne Che Yip

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings loses Tom Budge from its cast

March 16, 2021 by Ricky Church

Amazon’s upcoming The Lord of the Rings series is out one actor from its ensemble cast. Tom Budge announce through his Instagram account that he has left the series as Amazon wants to “go in another direction” with his character. “It is with great sadness that I am writing to tell you I have departed Amazon’s […]

Filed Under: News, Ricky Church, Television Tagged With: Amazon, The Lord of the Rings, Tom Budge

Viggo Mortensen explains why he is interested in watching Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series

February 3, 2021 by Liam Waddington

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings TV series is currently in development in West Auckland, New Zealand, and now, one of the stars of Peter Jackson’s film trilogy has offered his thoughts on the upcoming series. In an interview with GQ, Viggo Mortensen, who played Aragorn in all three The Lords of the Rings film instalments, shared his […]

Filed Under: Liam Waddington, News, Television Tagged With: Amazon Lord of the Rings, The Lord of the Rings, Viggo Mortensen

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series synopsis revealed

January 13, 2021 by Ricky Church

For a long time details have been few on Amazon’s upcoming The Lord of the Rings series. About the only thing known of the series is it will take place during the Second Age of Middle-earth, which is thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved stories The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Now, however, we have some […]

Filed Under: News, Ricky Church, Television Tagged With: Amazon Studios, J.A. Bayona, JD Payne, Patrick McKay, The Lord of the Rings

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series adds 20 to its cast

November 30, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Amazon Studios has announced that it is filling out Middle-earth with the addition of twenty new cast members to its upcoming Amazon Original series based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings. The new cast members include Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Lenny […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Alex Tarrant, Amazon, Anthony Crum, Augustus Prew, Benjamin Walker, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Fabian McCallum, Geoff Morrell, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Lenny Henry, Leon Wadham, Lloyd Owen, Maxim Baldry, Maxine Cunliffe, Peter Mullan, Peter Tait, Sara Zwangobani, Simon Merrells, The Lord of the Rings, Thusitha Jayasundera, Trystan Gravelle

Viggo Mortensen discusses a deleted flashback scene from The Lord of the Rings featuring Aragorn and Arwen

December 14, 2020 by Gary Collinson

It may be coming on for twenty year since the release of the first instalment, but it seems the cast of The Lord of the Rings still can’t take part in an interview with the subject of Peter Jackson’s epic fantasy trilogy cropping up. Speaking to NME to promote the release of his directorial debut […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Liv Tyler, Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings, Viggo Mortensen

The Hobbit actor says studio interference caused problems for the trilogy and Peter Jackson’s workflow

December 7, 2020 by Liam Waddington

With The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies receiving 4K remastered box sets this month, one of the actors from the franchise has opened up about the development on the prequel trilogy. In an interview on Kiwi Talkz, Jed Brophy, who played the Dwarf Nori in The Hobbit trilogy as well as portraying the Nazgul and a variety of […]

Filed Under: Liam Waddington, Movies, News Tagged With: Jed Brophy, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings

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