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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) at present introduced The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power attracted extra than 25 million international viewers on its first day, breaking all earlier information, marking the largest premiere within the historical past of Prime Video. The collection launched solely on Prime Video in additional than 240 nations and territories worldwide.
Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, mentioned: “It is somehow fitting that Tolkien’s stories – among the most popular of all time, and what many consider to be the true origin of the fantasy genre – have led us to this proud moment. I am so grateful to the Tolkien Estate – and to our showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, executive producer Lindsey Weber, cast and crew – for their tireless collaborative efforts and boundless creative energy. And it is the tens of millions of fans watching – clearly as passionate about Middle-earth as we are – who are our true measure of success.”
Episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will launch weekly by means of the October 14 season finale on Prime Video.
About The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s historical past. This epic drama is ready hundreds of years earlier than the occasions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and can take viewers again to an period through which nice powers have been solid, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to break, unlikely heroes have been examined, hope hung by the best of threads, and one of the best villains that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cowl all of the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the collection follows an ensemble solid of characters, each acquainted and new, as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that reside on lengthy after they’re gone.
The collection is led by showrunners and government producers J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay. They are joined by government producers Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado, and producers Ron Ames and Christopher Newman. Wayne Che Yip is co-executive producer and directs together with J.A. Bayona and Charlotte Brändström.
A world-renowned literary work, and winner of the International Fantasy Award and Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, The Lord of the Rings was named Amazon prospects’ favourite ebook of the millennium in 1999 and Britain’s best-loved novel of all time in BBC’s “The Big Read” in 2003. The Lord of the Rings books have been translated into over 38 languages and have bought extra than 150 million copies.
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