Amazon's Lord of the Rings series has wrapped up filming and finally has a release date. The original story, set during the Second Age of J. R. R. Tolkien's seminal high fantasy, will be the most expensive show ever produced when it airs, but with all the post-production needed to bring the magical world to life, we've got to wait quite a bit before that happens.
The Lord of the Rings series will premier on Friday, September 2, 2022, streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video with a release schedule of one episode per week.
Produced on a budget of $465 million on top of the $250 million paid for the rights, the show will be the most expensive series ever produced by a colossal margin, vastly outpacing recent major productions like Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian.
The series remains untitled and details are scarce - all we know is that the story is not a direct adaptation of any existing media set in Tolkien's world, but will depict a mostly original tale set during the Second Age. Some characters - owing to the long lives of some species in this universe - will be making a return from Peter Jackson's film trilogy, albeit with new actors.
