Amazon's The Lord of the Rings: TheRingsOfPower hasn't even begun yet, but the creative team has already planned out 5 seasons: 'There are things in the first season that don’t pay off until Season 5.'
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power showrunner JD Payne has revealed that season 1 sets up events in season 5. Based on the world-renowned high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, the upcoming The Lord of the Rings prequel spin-off series will be set in the Second Age, a time before the wars that decimated Middle-Earth, in which the aftermath can be seen in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has cultivated an expansive cast of diverse characters that feature in a story developed since 2018. However, the series will not tie directly with Jackson's popular The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit films due to legal rights issues.
"We even know what our final shot of the last episode is going to be. The rights that Amazon bought were for a 50-hour show. They knew from the beginning that was the size of the canvas – this was a big story with a clear beginning, middle and end. There are things in the first season that don’t pay off until Season 5."
Payne and co-showrunner Patrick McKay were brought in to create the new series despite having experience with only uncredited and unproduced work. J.J. Abrams reportedly vouched for the two based on their work on a Star Trek film. However, the two's vision for the show impressed Amazon enough to be hired, and the duo has mapped out the entire series in detail.
Although season 1 setting up events in season 5 seems like something that should happen in every television show that survives for that long, many series are greenlit without a multi-season plan. Instead, a single season is written at a time with only a general idea of where the story will go the following year or no idea at all. Planning and mapping out the details for an entire five-season series is impressive.
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