‘The Rings of Power’ Final Trailer Released Ten Days Ahead of Premiere
The Rings of Power will have a two-episode premiere on the night of September 1st, and Amazon has also announced that 200 screens from some select countries will get a theatrical release of the first two episodes on the night of August 31st. To celebrate, a final trailer has arrived.
Check it out below:
Depicting the events of the Second Age over a five-season arc, The Rings of Power includes iconic characters from the Tolkien Legendarium like Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), Isildur (Maxim Baldry), Elendil (Lloyd Owen), Prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur), Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards), and Sauron, of course, of identity still unknown. New characters were also created for the show, from Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova), Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), or Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi), to Princess Disa (Sophia Nomvete) or Eärien (Ema Horvath).
Another iconic Tolkien character appearing in the series is Gil-galad, played by Benjamin Walker. In a recent interview with Collider, Walker explained what he’s most excited for people to see in the show:
“The amount of work that’s gone into it. What’s unique about how we’re doing it is that each episode is its own movie. The denseness of the text can be a little more faithfully translated to the screen. You can be immersed in these worlds and the amount of work and detail that’s gone into it. Because of the nature of the format, you’re gonna be able to really luxuriate and get lost in it.”
He went on to explain one of the things that most surprised him while on set:
“What was surprising to me is that the day of filming, there was something a bit independent-film, gorilla-style, everyone standing around trying to figure out how to milk every bit of magic out of these scenes… And that was surprising to me, I think you’ll be able to really tell, because it’s what Tolkien did well. He created these vast universes and creatures and languages, but at the core of it, it’s the battle of good vs. evil and the intricacies of these relationships. J.D. and Patrick have helped to stay true to that.”
He also explained the massive scope of The Rings of Power and how that affected everything on set, to the tiniest detail:
“You know, my first day on set, there was something like 200,000 or 300,000 hand-painted gold leaves on the ground. I mean, individually painted. Leaves. Individual constellations of life, that someone has researched, and tested, and had multiple iterations and meetings about. The color of the leaf, the size of the leaf, the health of the tree that the leaf fell from, the ground that the leaf landed on. And then, here I am walking on the set, and they are perfectly placed. And the place is alive, with the love and detail and effort that has gone into it. That’s the amount of care that Tolkien took on his writings. It’s humbling, but also the bare minimum that it’d be how we approach making this series.”
About J.A. Bayona, who directed the first two episodes, Walker said the following about what he brought to the table:
“Bravery and an endless amount of energy. The man can just ping-pong all over the place. And he is an inspiration in that sense, in that he’s constantly looking to be surprised. By the visual aspects of it, by a performance… He also does a thing that I never had a director do — he plays music, constantly. He’s got a specific song that he’ll play in between set ups or in between takes. And it’s usually a film score. But what it does is, on a deeply subconscious level, it kind of unifies the work that’s going on. Everyone can get an idea of how he’s imagining the scene going, and even in the downtime when you’re not shooting, you’re still kind of in that reality, and it’s because he’s playing this music. And I love that. Because often times you go to the crafts service table, you have a cookie, the kind of air goes out. He didn’t allow that. That’s something I’ll take with me on every job from here on out.”
J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay are showrunners and executive producers. Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado are also EPs. The directors of the first season include J.A. Bayona, who directed the first two episodes, Wayne Che Yip, and Charlotte Brändström. Helen Shang is also a writer and co-producer. We know that season 2 will go into production in October — filming will take place in the U.K. this time around, and it will have an all-female director lineup.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
