Stanley Kubrick once said Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' novels were unfilmable but Amazon's Bezos disagrees, with Prime Video ready to launch its new, very expensive, 'The Rings of Power' prequel series
Amazon's $1 billion gamble,"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," a 50-hour television series will be out globally on its streaming service on September 2.
It is hard to imagine what the great director would have made of Amazon's $1 billion gamble on "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," a 50-hour television series based on the dry historical footnotes published at the end of book three. But populated by heroes and villains who are barely –– if at all –– referenced in Tolkien's trilogy and its "Appendices" of fictional mythology, and featuring a largely unknown cast and creators, there is no doubting the scale of the gamble.
So while a handful of characters from Jackson's films reappear in Amazon's show –– mostly younger versions of elves such as Galadriel and Elrond, who are of course immortal –– there is no Frodo, Gollum or Aragorn in sight. Here, Baldry plays a younger version of the tragic hero, struggling with the death of his mother, overbearing pressure from his father, and a romantic yearning for adventure.
The fate of the series rests in the hands of creators –– or "showrunners" –– Patrick McKay and JD Payne, who pitched their concept to Amazon after it bought the rights in 2017 but had only a handful of previous projects credited on their CVs.
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