Watch: Amazon Prime Video Debuts Trailer Of Lord Of The Rings At Comic Con

The trailer of Amazon Prime Video’s  The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was released on Friday during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con. Based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the eight-part series will debut on Prime Video on September 2, with new episodes arriving weekly. It is said to be the most expensive series ever made, with a reported budget of $465 million. Amazon bought the rights from the Tolkien estate for $250 million in 2017.

Jennifer Salke, the head of Amazon Studios, told The Hollywood Reporter last year that while the number is a “crazy headline that’s fun to click on,” “that is really building the infrastructure of what will sustain the whole series” which she called a “huge, world-building show.”

Salke also said that a “giant, global audience needs to show up to it as appointment television” but that they were “pretty confident that will happen.”

Trailer of Lord Of The Rings

Under the leadership of showrunners and executive producers JD Payne and Patrick McKay, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power focuses on Tolkien’s Second Age of Middle-earth when kingdoms are forming and falling and evil forces loom and threaten to cover the world in darkness.

The new trailer establishes the narrative’s skeleton: Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) standing in front of a huge stack of empty helmets, which represents the casualties sustained in the most recent great conflict to banish evil from the planet. Although Morgoth’s name is not mentioned in the teaser, Tolkien fans are aware that he is the first Dark Lord of Middle-earth and the teacher of Sauron, the main antagonist of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

The Rings of Power will take audiences to fantastical locations like the Elven realms of Lindon and Eregion, the Dwarven realm Khazad-dûm, the Southlands, the Northernmost Wastes, the Sundering Seas, and the island kingdom of Númenór and introduce them to a large ensemble, including Elrond (Robert Aramayo) and High King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker).

The show is directed by JA Bayona, Wayne Che Yip and Charlotte Brandstrom.

Check out the trailer ">here.

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