游牧的霍比特人、长胡子的女性矮人和被奴役的精灵——亚马逊终于在周五的动漫展上揭开了备受期待的《指环王3360:权力的指环》电视剧的盖子。
这部以J.R.R。托尔金(托尔金)的书籍世界为背景的雄心勃勃的小屏幕传奇故事,自亚马逊最好的在近五年前以2.5亿美元购买版权以来,一直在筹备中。
粉丝们,其中许多人在世界上最著名的流行文化聚会上通宵排队,被允许先看一眼镜头,外加在史蒂芬科拜尔主持的90分钟的演示中采访创作者和21名哈比人、精灵和矮人演员。
"作为《中土世界》和《托尔金》的粉丝、观众和爱好者,我们不想做副业、衍生剧或其他东西的起源故事,"联合创作者帕特里克麦凯说。
我们想找到一部巨大的托尔金史诗。神奇的是,亚马逊疯狂到说'是的,让我们这么做吧。''
动漫展等待新的《权力的游戏》和《指环王》上映,粉丝们又回来了
据报道,亚马逊花费超过10亿美元制作了五季——每季10小时——第一季将于9月2日在其流媒体平台上发布,并将"重新引入"托尔金的中土世界麦凯说。
亚马逊昂贵的《指环王》电视剧将于2022年9月推出
A younger version of elves Galadriel and Elrond – characters familiar to fans of Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning "Lord of the Rings" trilogy – will be played by Morfydd Clark and Robert Aramayo.
But with the new TV show set 4,000 years before Jackson's trilogy, in a fictional "Second Age" – a historical period sketched out in less detail by Tolkien's writings – the creators had license to create many new characters.
"The field was wide open," said co-creator J.D. Payne.
"Amazon bought the rights to basically 10,000 years of Middle Earth history and said, 'Alright guys, let's take all comers and see what you have to say.'
"We felt that the Second Age is freaking awesome. It's Tolkien's amazing, untold story, that is so iconic with the forging of the Rings of Power."
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The series is said to be a personal obsession of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and represents the company's biggest play yet in the so-called "streaming wars" with rivals including Netflix and Disney+.
Much of that cost went into lavish production values, evident to fans packed into the San Diego convention center's 6,000-capacity Hall H, where they were treated to five clips from the show, plus a new trailer.
Though plot details remain under wraps, sprawling and intricately detailed settings from the books, including the island kingdom of Numenor – projected onto a giant screen wrapping around-three quarters of the arena – drew audible gasps.
"We built as much as any group of humans could," said executive producer Lindsey Weber.
"We built an entire city with several blocks and an entire wharf – it's crazy and enormous," said McKay.
One clip introduced a group of Harfoots, nomadic ancestors to the hobbits of "Lord of the Rings," who live in travelling carts rather than holes.
Another showed a wealthy dwarf kingdom – complete with the saga's first bearded female dwarves -- and a third clip found a group of elves in chains, forced to work for a gang of evil orcs.
The series is set to go head-to-head with HBO's "Game of Thrones" spin-off "House of the Dragon," which will be unveiled to the same packed venue Saturday at Comic-Con.
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The pop culture gathering is taking place in-person and at full capacity again for the first time in three years, after going online due to the pandemic .
Disney will wrap up the event's major presentations Saturday evening with a presentation expected to feature its Marvel superheroes, including eagerly awaited sequel "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."