Shooting of Amazon’s highly anticipated Lord of the Rings television series will begin next month in New Zealand. Here we will try to reveal 5 thing that a Lord of the Rings fan should know about the TV series.
- Amazon has assembled its fellowship and earlier this week the production of the series confirmed 15 member’s names for the cast and some important character are on process to be announce. 2 actors from another great TV series Game of Thrones will be seen playing character in the Lord of the Rings series.
- British actors Robert Aramayo, who portrayed a young Ned Stark, and Joseph Mawle, who played Benjen Stark on HBO’s fantasy series will be seen in this new series. Besides, A Confession‘s Owain Arthur, Hotel Mumbai‘s Nazanin Boniadi, The Proposition‘s Tom Budge, His Dark Materials‘ Morfydd Clark, The Undoing‘s Ismael Cruz Córdova (last seen in The Mandalorian), The Gallows Act II‘s Ema Horvath, The Cry‘s Markella Kavenagh, Birdsong‘s Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin of web series Caravan, stage actor Sophia Nomvete, Wanderlust‘s Megan Richards, I Am the Night‘s Dylan Smith, Medici: Masters of Florence‘s Charlie Vickers, and A Very English Scandal‘s Daniel Weyman were also confirmed.
- The TV adaptation will explore new storylines preceding JRR Tolkien’s the Fellowship of the Ring, the first instalment in the famed trilogy. The series is slated to cost NZ$1.3bn – making it the most expensive television show ever made.
- Last month, the producers started casting for extras from a pool of nearly 5 million people, advertising for people to come forward with “wonderful noses”, and “character faces”. Locals who were less than 1.5 metres tall, or over 1.95 metres, were also in demand, as well as those with heavily wrinkled skin and a lack of teeth – namely, orcs. An advertisement shows “HAIR HAIR HAIR — if you have natural red hair, white hair, or lots and lots of freckles,”
- In New Zealand – which many tourists still refer to as Middle-earth – the government made a vigorous effort to secure the Amazon series, with the studio raising concerns about the safety of filming in the country following the Christchurch terror attack last March. The government also welcome the series as it will create more jobs across the country.
> Dipto Paul
