The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Filming on Season 2 wrapped during the writers’ strike and will not be affected by the upcoming SAG-AFTRA strike. According to Variety, Rings of Power wrapped production “a few weeks ago” without its showrunners JD Payne AND Patrick McCay on set due to the strike.
Without the writers and showrunners involved in the production, we can only hope that the creative team left behind on the show is able to deliver a fantastic second season. With no screenwriting talent on set, we can only hope that the scripts they were working with were strong.
The rings of power Season 2 is set to tell the next chapter in the fantasy epic, and has previously been described as “coveted at feature film level.” I’m a fan of Season 1 and was really happy with the story they told and how it unfolded. I’m excited to see what’s in store for Season 2!
Producer Vernon Sanders previously teased Season 2 by saying, “We now enjoy seeing the story grow as Sauron is revealed. And I think audiences can expect a show that while it feels true to itself, it feels like the stakes are getting higher and higher and now that the rings are in the game, seeing what they can do and seeing how the various factions within of the world deal with those implications. I think it’s going to be really exciting.”
Talking about the pace and scope of next season, he went on to say, “We’ve never done anything like this. So the whole production model, how to produce a show like this, scale work, those were all things that we had to learn the first time in the process of making the show. We will be faster. We’re going to be able to put more money on the screen, just in terms of the scale and scope of what we’re doing now that we know how to do it. And I also think the pace of our story will pick up in part because the story requires that now that everyone has been established, the stakes have been established, that we will see some characters in some lands go to war.
He also teased even bigger battle sequences, saying, “Yeah, I can tell you’re going to see bigger battles in Season 2, including some iconic moments from the Appendices and the books.”
McKay also spoke about Sauron saying, “Sauron can just be Sauron now. Like Tony Soprano or Walter White. He’s evil, but complex. We felt like if we did that in season 1, it would overshadow everything else. So The first season is like Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight is the next film, with Sauron maneuvering in the open. We’re really excited. The second season has a canon story. There may be viewers who say, “This is the story we hoped to get in the first season!’ In Season 2, we give it to them.”
The series is based on the appendices of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings books, and the story is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, “thousands of years before the events of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will transport viewers back to an era where great powers have been forged, kingdoms have risen to glory and fallen to ruin, unlikely heroes have been tested, hope hangs by the thinnest threads, and the greatest villain ever ever come out of Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover the whole world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they grapple with the dreaded reemergence of evil in Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking kingdom of the Isle of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that will live long they are gone .”
The show will run for five seasons.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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