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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 gets new cast additions

    Express News Service

    Seven new actors including Gabriel Akuwudike, Yasen Atour, and Ben Daniels have joined the existing cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in recurring roles for its forthcoming second season. The show is currently in production in the UK.

    The other cast members are Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle, and Nicholas Woodeson. The role of Orc leader “Adar” has been recast for season two, and will be played by Sam Hazeldine.

    WATCH | Trailer for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ prequel series ‘Rings of Power’ out

    “Since its premiere, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has been bringing audiences together to experience the magic and wonder of JRR Tolkien’s magnificent Middle-earth. To date, season one is the top Original series for Prime Video in every region and has been viewed by over 100 million people worldwide, a truly global hit that speaks to the universal nature of powerful storytelling.

    We welcome these wonderful actors to our ‘fellowship’ and look forward to telling more incredible Second Age stories in season two,” said Vernon Sanders, Head of Global Television, Amazon Studios.

    (The story originally appeared in Cinema Express)

    Seven new actors including Gabriel Akuwudike, Yasen Atour, and Ben Daniels have joined the existing cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in recurring roles for its forthcoming second season. The show is currently in production in the UK.

    The other cast members are Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle, and Nicholas Woodeson. The role of Orc leader “Adar” has been recast for season two, and will be played by Sam Hazeldine.

    WATCH | Trailer for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ prequel series ‘Rings of Power’ out

    “Since its premiere, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has been bringing audiences together to experience the magic and wonder of JRR Tolkien’s magnificent Middle-earth. To date, season one is the top Original series for Prime Video in every region and has been viewed by over 100 million people worldwide, a truly global hit that speaks to the universal nature of powerful storytelling.

    We welcome these wonderful actors to our ‘fellowship’ and look forward to telling more incredible Second Age stories in season two,” said Vernon Sanders, Head of Global Television, Amazon Studios.

    (The story originally appeared in Cinema Express)

  • LOTR: The Rings of Power series adds two actors as series regulars

    By Express News Service

    Amazon Studios’ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series has added two more actors as series regulars. Nazanin Boniadi and Tyroe Muhafidin will play Bronwyn and Theo in the series.

    Set thousands of years before the events of the Lord of the Rings films and novels, the series brings to screens for the very first time JRR Tolkien’s fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. It will follow an ensemble cast of characters who will confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil in Middle-earth.

    The series stars Ismael Cruz Cordova, Morfydd Clark, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.

    The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is led by showrunners and executive producers JD Payne & Patrick McKay. Ron Ames and Christopher Newman produce the series. Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, JA Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado serve as executive producers. Wayne Che Yip serves as the co-executive producer and will direct the series along with Bayona and Charlotte Brändström. 

  • ‘The Lord of the Rings’ anime movie in the works

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: New Line Cinema, the studio behind the Oscar-winning ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and ‘The Hobbit’, is teaming up with Warner Bros. Animation for the original anime movie ‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’.

    As per Variety, veteran anime filmmaker Kenji Kamiyama, who helmed Netflix’s ‘Ultraman’ anime series, will direct the film from a screenplay by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews. Joseph Chou is producing the upcoming project.

    The stand-alone feature will depict the bloody saga behind Helm’s Deep, the fortress depicted in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’, and the man in whose honour it’s named: Helm Hammerhand, the legendary King of Rohan who spent much of his reign locked in a prolonged and costly war.

    While the filmmaking team is new to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ movie franchise, the project is intended to be connected to director Peter Jackson’s six Middle Earth films based on the books of J.R.R. Tolkien.

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    Philippa Boyens, who won an Oscar for the screenplay for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’, is consulting on the project, which will also draw its aesthetic and narrative inspiration from the ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy.

    ‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ is not, however, connected to Amazon’s gargantuan ‘The Lord of the Rings’ series that is deep into production in New Zealand. That project is set in the Second Age of Middle Earth, millennia before the events of the feature films; Helm Hammerhand’s reign, by contrast, unfolded roughly 260 years before the ‘LOTR’ movies.

    With Amazon’s series looming, New Line and Warner Animation are fast-tracking their feature, with animation at Sola Entertainment and voice casting already underway. The six Middle Earth features have grossed over USD 5.8 billion worldwide for Warner Bros., and it would appear the studio is not content ceding its claim to Tolkien’s creative territory to Amazon.

    Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute the project worldwide.