Amazon made The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy a worldwide occasion, with the Prime Video collection dropping its first two episodes on September 1 and a pair of (relying in your time zone), and its first day was a significant success.
Amazon has introduced that greater than 25 million international viewers watched The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy on its first day, breaking all earlier information and marking the most important premiere within the historical past of Prime Video.
“It’s someway becoming that Tolkien’s tales — among the many hottest of all time, and what many take into account to be the true origin of the fantasy style — have led us to this proud second,” Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, mentioned in a press release. “I’m so grateful to the Tolkien Property — and to our showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, govt producer Lindsey Weber, solid and crew — for his or her tireless collaborative efforts and boundless inventive power. And it’s the tens of thousands and thousands of followers watching — clearly as enthusiastic about Center-earth as we’re — who’re our true measure of success.”
The Prime Video collection will proceed to roll out its first season weekly, on Thursdays and Fridays relying on the time zone, by the finale, dropping on October 14.
The collection brings to screens for the primary time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Center-earth’s historical past. It’s set hundreds of years earlier than the occasions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and in an period through which nice powers have been solid, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to wreck, unlikely heroes have been examined, hope hung by the best of threads, and one of many best villains that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cowl all of the world in darkness. The collection begins in a time of relative peace and follows each acquainted and new characters confronting the long-feared reemergence of evil to Center-earth. It additionally options kingdoms beforehand unseen, and the primary two episodes have already launched a thriller involving the id of the Stranger.
J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay function showrunners and govt produce with Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado. Ron Ames and Christopher Newman are producers. Wayne Che Yip is co-executive producer and directs together with J.A. Bayona and Charlotte Brändström.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy, Thursdays, Prime Video
