Amazon reveals title and trailer for brand new ‘Lord of the Rings’ sequence coming to Prime Video

Are you prepared to go again to Center Earth? Amazon Studios revealed the title and trailer Wednesday for its extremely anticipated prequel to the “Lord of the Rings” sequence, referred to as “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy.”

The sequence will debut on Prime Video on Sept. 2.

“The Rings of Energy” is about within the Second Age of Center Earth, hundreds of years earlier than the occasions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

The sequence “will take viewers again to an period by which nice powers had been solid, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to break, unlikely heroes had been examined, hope hung by the best of threads, and the best villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cowl all of the world in darkness,” Amazon mentioned in its YouTube description for the trailer.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tweeted a picture of himself holding an enormous slab of wooden with the sequence title on it. “Can’t wait so that you can see it,” he wrote.

IGN has behind-the-scenes particulars on how the title sequence was created, and it wasn’t with CGI, however somewhat with molten steel and a “hunk of reclaimed redwood.”

Amazon first introduced that it had acquired the rights to adapt Tolkien’s work in 2017.

“’The Lord of the Rings’ is a cultural phenomenon that has captured the creativeness of generations of followers by means of literature and the large display screen,” Sharon Tal Yguado, head of Scripted Sequence for Amazon Studios, mentioned in an announcement on the time. 

Tolkien’s e-book sequence was named Amazon prospects’ favourite e-book of the millennium in 1999. Director Peter Jackson’s theatrical diversifications included “The Fellowship of the Ring” (2001); “The Two Towers” (2002); and “The Return of the King” (2003). The movies grossed almost $6 billion worldwide and received a mixed 17 Academy Awards, together with Greatest Image for “King.”