While The Grand Tour may have tempted folks to subscribe to Amazon Prime Video, a regular stream of excellent content including The Boys, The Expanse, and Invincible to name a few, has kept folks coming back.
If Amazon needed another show to bring in customers, well that show might just be The Lord of the Rings.
The series adaptation of the books has been in production since early 2020 and yesterday it was revealed that the show will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on 2nd September 2022 following a wrap on filming.
Why the massive gap between filming and premiere? Well as Ars Technica rightly points out, a show like this is likely to have a massive job on its hands as regards special effects and CGI. This sort of work can take ages, especially if you want it too look good.
The story of this series – which bizarrely doesn’t have an official name – will take place before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings saga and “follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth” according to IMDB.
So far the series is slated for at least two seasons and while IMDB reports that there are five seasons to come we’re tempering our excitement. The series could be great but it could also bomb, so no pressure Amazon Studios.
In the meantime if you’re looking for literary characters you can watch, Netflix’s The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf is coming to the platform on 23rd August with the second season of The Witcher hitting Netflix on 17th December.
If you need a Lord of the Rings fix, well all three movies from the trilogy, as well as The Hobbit films are available on Showmax.
On September 2, 2022, a new journey begins. pic.twitter.com/9tnR7WqDoA
— The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) August 2, 2021
