
#LORD OF RINGS MUSIC SERIES#
The Hobbit series grossed close to $3 billion also, worldwide. The LOTR trilogy grossed nearly $3 billion globally, and won 17 Oscars.

The Lord of the Rings books have been translated into some 40 languages and have sold more than 150 million copies. Christopher Newman is a producer and Ron Ames is a co-producer.Ī 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 customers’ favorite book of the millennium in 1999 and Britain’s best-loved novel of all time in BBC’s The Big Read in 2003. This screening will see the music of Middle-earth come to life, with Howard Shores Academy Award-winning score being performed live by the Royal Philharmonic. Wayne Che Yip is co-executive producer and directs along with J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado. Payne and McKay serve as showrunners and executive produce with Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Headlining the ensemble cast are Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. Tolkien’s fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. The series brings to screens for the very first time J.R.R. Payne and Patrick McKay, The Lord of the Rings series is described as an “epic drama” set in the Second Age of Middle-earth - thousands of years before the events of LOTR and the novels by Tolkien. Shore, whose film credits include The Hobbit trilogy, Twilight Saga, Hugo, The Departed, Pieces Of A Woman, Philadelphia, The Silence of the Lambs and many others, provided the unforgettable and often ominous score that framed the stakes in the battle between Sauron’s evil forces of Orcs, Goblins, and Uruk-Hai forces against the men, hobbits, elves and dwarves in Middle Earth.ĭeveloped by J.D. The late author Tolkien was English, and Tolkien reportedly based the Shire’s landscapes, climate, flora, fauna on rural England, The first season shot in Auckland.

Amazon, which has multiple series filming in the UK, is currently in the process of booking stages to house the sets. It is unclear where exactly in the UK The Lord Of the Rings will shoot as part of the streaming studio’s efforts to expand its footprint in the country. EA Developing 'The Lord Of The Rings' Mobile Game With Middle-Earth EnterprisesĪmazon recently announced that move from New Zealand - where all three LOTR and three The Hobbit films were shot - to the UK earlier this year, and the elaborate sets built for the show will be shipped to the UK.
