![]() ![]() ![]() Payne and McKay are Tolkien megafans, but when Amazon was looking for writers, that wasn't unusual. #THE RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS AMAZON TV#That's one reason Amazon bought the rights to make a TV adaptation (for a rumored $250 million) - the IP came with a very dedicated fan base.īut for McKay and his longtime writing partner and fellow showrunner, JD Payne, it made the job an epic undertaking in its own right: they somehow had to tell a story for everyone, newbies as much as megafans, your best friend as much as your mother. Peter Jackson's three Lord of the Rings films and three further Hobbit adaptations only widened the audience and deepened the mythology. Tolkien wrote many thousands of pages filled with esoteric lore, fictional bloodlines and imagined history in the course of creating Middle-earth. It's an important point, because The Lord of the Rings and the world of Middle-earth are among the original alternate-world, fan-boy deep dives. for people who - again, like my mother - don't get it and have never gotten it, we've strived in every moment to create real human drama that's relatable. If you've never seen the Lord of the Rings film, if you've never heard of The Lord of the Rings. "And this is a really important point - this show is for them, too. "There are people who have never come across Lord of the Rings at all. That is what happens when a relatively new entrant to the television business spends what is reportedly the most money ever on one of the best- known literary adaptations in the history of fiction: everyone from Elves to Ents (talking trees) has an opinion.Īmid all the hullabaloo, coshowrunner Patrick McKay did what every good boy should always do. Few shows in TV history have been more anticipated, pored over and pre-judged than Amazon Studios' The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which launched its eight-episode debut season on Prime Video September 2. ![]()
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