The Lord of the Rings TV series has confirmed, to general surprise, that season two will not be filming in New Zealand, but the UK.
All of Sir Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies were all filmed there, so this is quite the change – one that not everyone is very happy about.
Elijah Wood, who played Frodo Baggins in the first trilogy, wasn’t overly impressed with the big change, and retweeted an article about the show’s location move, replying with a facepalm emoji. Clearly, there was no more to be said about that.
Having recently wrapped filming on the first season of the as-yet-untitled series, it was recently announced when the show will premiere – and there’s quite a wait.
The Amazon Prime Video adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s fantasy series will be arriving on the streaming service on Friday, September 2, 2022.
In addition to announcing a premiere date a little over one year away, Amazon has unveiled the first official photo from one of the “previously unexplored stories” set in the world of Middle-earth.
The stories will be set during the Second Age of Middle-earth thousands of years before Sir Peter Jackson’s movies, so there is plenty of scope for lots of new stories, characters and worlds to explore.
The series is set to star His Dark Materials and Dracula’s Morfydd Clark as elf Galadriel, as well as Homeland’s Nazanin Boniadi, comedy legend Sir Lenny Henry, Arrow’s Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Harry Potter’s Peter Mullan and Hollyoaks’ Maxim Baldry, among many others.