LOTR: Rings of Power Already Has Its Very Last Shot Figured Out
Showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay already have 5 seasons of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power planned out and know what the final shot will be. Following Peter Jackson's massively successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's high-fantasy works, The Lord of the Rings andThe Hobbit, for New Line Cinema, The Rings of Power will be Amazon Studios' first foray into Middle-earth. In 2017, Amazon bought the television rights to Lord of the Rings for $250 million and made a 5-season commitment to the Rings of Power show, worth about $1 billion in production costs, making it the most expensive TV series ever made.
Though they are technically uncredited on the film, one of Payne and McKay's most high-profile projects was writing a draft of the script for 2016's Star Trek Beyond. The duo was hired for the Lord of the Rings series in 2018 with the rest of the creative team being announced a year later. Alongside Payne and McKay, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's J.A. Bayona acts as an executive producer and directs the first two Rings of Power episodes. The series is primarily based on the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, set during the Second Age of Middle-earth, and features a diverse ensemble cast from all around the globe.
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Talking to Empire for their exclusive cover story, Payne and McKay revealed they already have 5 full seasons of Rings of Power planned out. Even more impressive than that, Payne said they know what the last shot of the series finale is going to be. Read what he shared below:
We even know what our final shot of the last episode is going to be. The rights that Amazon bought were for a 50-hour show. They knew from the
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