The Rings of Power: Where was The Lord of the Rings filmed? – News series
Expected on September 2, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is the serial event of the season. But where was this ambitious production filmed? We have the answer!
Prepare to land in Middle-earth September 2 on Amazon Prime Video with The Rings of Power. The chain of events risks causing a tidal wave, overshadowing House of the Dragon, which has just started airing on OCS.
Since its debut, The Lord of the Rings has caused a lot of ink to flow, particularly due to its budget, the most expensive in the history of the series. Each season will cost about $200 million, twice the cost of Season 8 of Game of Thrones.
Set to run 5 seasons, this adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s work will have a total cost of up to $1 billion!
Shooting at the end of the world
It was necessary to show on screen a universe as rich and abundant as the one imagined by the British author. And in order to record his vision as accurately as possible, it was necessary to shoot in the only place in the world that could offer a wonderful landscape worthy of Middle-earth: New Zealand!
Just like Peter Jackson in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, the production team decided to place their cameras on the “Land of the Long White Cloud” (Aotearoa in Maori).
Big challenge for New Zealand
The New Zealand government gave its largest support to this pharaonic project. In fact, since the triumph of the Jackson films, one in five tourists travels to the country to visit the natural sites of the movies. For this Pacific island, the economic interest is essential.
As a reminder, the series takes place approximately 7,000 years before the events of Lord of the Rings. The story will begin in a time of relative peace, following a cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they face the fearsome return of evil in Middle-earth.
Des profondeurs les plus sombres des Monts Brumeux aux forêts majestueuses de la capitale des elfes de Lindon, au royaume insulaire à couper le souffle de Númenor, jusqu’aux confins de la carte, ces royaumes et personnages se se taillerqut pr’ h They are gone.
Episodes of The Rings of Power will begin streaming on September 2nd on Prime Video.
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