NEW YORK: Amazon announced Monday that its big-budget “The Lord of The Rings” series, based on the fantasy saga by J.R.R. Tolkien, will premiere worldwide in September 2022.
The streaming service hopes that the yet-to-be-titled series will rival the success of “Game of Thrones.” The first episode will be available on Sept 2, 2022.
Amazon, which acquired the television rights to the cult classic in 2017 for an estimated $250 million, said in a statement that “filming of Season One completed today (Monday) in New Zealand.”
Situated in Middle Earth and featuring some of the epic’s most iconic characters, the series begins with new adventures “beginning in a time of relative peace, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ books,” the statement said.
The first season’s episodes will be released on a weekly basis, according to Amazon, which also posted the first images from the show on social media Monday.
