Lord of the Rings: Why Peter Jackson is not involved in the Amazon series after all
Amazon is currently working at full speed on one Lord of the Rings Series based on JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth novels published on September 2, 2022 with the first of many more planned seasons primevideo goes to the start. The extensive book template of the fantasy author has previously been the award-winning Director Peter Jackson in a epic film trilogy successfully implemented (including the accompanying “The Hobbit” trilogy).
Back then, Jackson enchanted the audience with impressive pictures and took them on an adventurous and exciting journey Middle-earth story – with one of the greatest opponents in film history: Sauron. Finally, the film trilogy from 2001 to 2003 was awarded a well-deserved 17 Oscars.
Peter Jackson should be involved in the Amazon series
Almost 20 years later, the first Lord of the Rings series follows, which for the first time Prehistory of Middle-earth with the emergence of Rings of Power (this is also the appropriate title of the series) and the rise of Sauron. When Amazon was able to secure the rights to the implementation in an unprecedented bidding process around four years ago and began production, the renowned filmmaker should also Peter Jackson be involved in the production. He himself confirmed it in a 2018 interview. But what has become of it?
Not much, at least according to Peter Jackson in a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter. Although the production team had approached him and his co-writer Fran Walsh at the time and also promised to let them participate in the creation process of the series, nothing seemed to come of it.
“They promised that as soon as the first scripts for the series were finished, they would give us a copy to submit. However, that was the last time I heard from them. The scripts never got to us”says Peter Jackson.
But he doesn’t blame the series makers for how it ended up going. Rather, he wishes the team every success with the series, after all he knows how difficult it is to create such an extensive template as Tolkien’s world implement.
Warner forbade working with Peter Jackson
In the meantime, a Amazon spokesman commented on the Peter Jackson matter and said that they had a lot of respect and admiration for the filmmaker, but that they stopped communicating legal reasons was not allowed to continue. After all, the series has nothing in common with the films (apart from the content) for production reasons.
The films are owned by Warner Bros. Pictures, while Amazon owns the rights to the series. That is also the reason why the former Warner boss itself against a participation of Peter Jackson pronounced. Amazon had to comply with this request for legal reasons.
Nevertheless, there is at least one overlap (besides the characters, of course): fans can look forward to the Original score of the film trilogy Amazon has brought composer Howard Shore, who won three Oscars for the soundtrack of the LOTR films, on board the LOTR series.
First Story Details: This is what the Lord of the Rings series is all about
the prequel series by the two showrunners and producers John D. Payne and Patrick McKay is during the Second Age settled and thus plays thousands of years ago the events of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The is shown Origin of Middle-earth, in which elves, wizards and dwarves settled the kingdoms of Middle-earth. The forging of the rings of power, which includes the fateful ring that Rise of the Dark Lord Sauron as well as the epic story of the Numeno Islandr and the last Alliance of Elves and Men are at the center of the series.
The plot follows the young Elf Galadrielwho shared with Elrond plays an important part in the history of the origins of Middle-earth. Other well-known characters include the dwarf leader Durin IV of Kazhad-dum, better known as the famous one Mine of Moriasuch as Isilduran ancestor of Aragorn and later King of Gondorwho became a tragic figure in the course of history Battle against Sauron plays.
Come in addition Celebrimbor, the Ringsmithwho is already from the video game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor should be known.
To set the mood, a new series special has recently been released, in which the main characters have their say:
Reference-www.playcentral.de
