Amazon’s Rings of Power Never Consulted with LOTR Director Peter Jackson
The original Lord of the Rings trilogy director Peter Jackson says he was never consulted for Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series. Jackson directed the first live-action adaptation of the fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien, including 2001's The Fellowship of the Ring, 2002's The Two Towers, and 2003's The Return of the King, which won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director in 2004. Jackson would go on to direct The Hobbit trilogy, which split Tolkien's novel into three parts and was released between 2012 and 2014.
Since that time, Jackson has moved on from the world of Middle-earth, focusing on documentary films, including the WWII doc They Shall Not Grow Old and the Emmy-nominated The Beatles: Get Back mini-series. In 2017, Prime Video acquired the rights to develop a series based on the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, not the actual books themselves, making a five-season production commitment for The Rings of Power. The series is set to debut in September, but it won't have Jackson's name on it, as the director was never involved in any aspect of its production.
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Talking to THR, Jackson recalls that the producers of The Rings of Power had reached out early on and asked if he'd be interested in being involved, to which the director said he'd need to see scripts first to give an answer. At the time, no scripts were written and the producers said they'd send them along once they were complete. However, no scripts ever appeared in Jackson's inbox and the show moved on without him, to which he harbors no ill will. Here's what he had to say:
They asked me if I wanted to be involved — [writer-producer Fran Walsh]
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