Amazon used Super Bowl LVI to Show the first trailer of his ambitious The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Series. The 60-second teaser gives us a first look at some of the main characters, potential action, and visual effects. “Have you ever wondered… what else is out there?” a voice intones to cast it.
As we learned earlier, the series takes place in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before the events of Lord of the Rings. Will be JRRTolkien’s drawing material the Silmarillion, which details important events such as the history of Sauron and the creation of the rings of power.
The new teaser briefly shows off several main characters, including Elrond (Robert Aramayo), Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova) and Galadriel (Morfydd Clark). Other stars include Benjamin Walker, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Joseph Mawle, Sara Zwangobani and Megan Richards.
Amazon spent $250 on the rights to the material and reportedly spent $465 million on the first season alone, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s hard to tell from the trailer if all that money made it to the screen, but we’ll know for sure when it hits Amazon Prime Video on September 2, 2022. The series has already been renewed for a second season.
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