The director of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is inspired by Peter Jackson’s films

Just a few weeks to go before the premiere of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’, the new original Amazon Prime Video series that will be set in Middle-earth created by JR R Tolkien, a production that has found some inspiration in the film trilogies of success created by director Peter Jackson.

Since the announcement of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’, many fans have wondered why Peter Jackson hadn’t collaborated with this original Amazon Prime Video series, and recently the Academy Award-winning director revealed that there was an approach, but a direct participation in the streaming service has never been finalized.

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Apparently why Amazon Prime Video didn’t consult with the Academy Award-winning director, Peter Jacksonit is due to a copyright issue, since the platform has the rights to some of the books created by the famous Tolkien, but does not have the rights to the Lord of the Rings films, however the director of this new series, JA Bayona, has revealed that these tapes served as inspiration for the creation of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The rings of power’.

We all love what Peter Jackson did, ”Bayona says for SFX magazine.

Similarly, the director of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ underlines the great challenge that this new production has before it, because the Peter Jackson film have been a huge success, so the goal of this production is at least to match the quality of the ‘Fellowship of the Ring’,’The two Towers’Y’The return of the king’.

The standard was very high and I’m glad Amazon had the ambition to go there. I tried to at least match what Peter Jackson did, “adds the director.

Without a doubt, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is one of the most interesting series that Amazon Prime video is preparing right now, and the best thing is that, as we have pointed out, this new production won’t keep the millions of fans of this franchise waiting long for its premiere, because it has been confirmed that it is one of the next releases of the month. on this platform.

The premiere of The Lord of the Rings, the Rings of Power

It will be September 9 when ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ arrives in the Amazon Prime Video catalog, the date on which the first episode of what will be the first season of this fantasy production will be released, due to why the rest of the chapters will be released weekly on this service.

It should be noted that, although it has not been released, ‘The Lord of the Rings: The rings of power’has already been renewed for a second season, which is currently in the process of recording, so everything seems to indicate that this captivating production set in Tolkien’s Middle-earth will be on Amazon’s streaming service for a long time.