The rumors were true: the third season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will not be premiering in 2027. As a substitute, it is going to be arriving on Prime Video this November.
The announcement got here late yesterday with a press launch reminding us of what to expect from the brand new episodes: “Leaping ahead a number of years from the occasions of season two, season three takes place on the peak of the Battle of the Elves and Sauron, because the Darkish Lord seeks to craft the One Ring that may give him the sting he must win the struggle, bind all peoples to his will—and eventually rule all Center-earth.”
We additionally received a glimpse of Sauron in his new crown, slicing an appropriately sinister silhouette.
The discharge underlines that Rings of Energy is “one of many highest-performing and most-viewed titles ever on Prime Video,” which is definitely a aid to the studio contemplating the present’s notoriously giant budget.
Lord of the Rings is a perpetually fashionable IP whose famously complicated rights issues have ended up figuring out fairly properly for followers. Along with Prime Video’s lavish streaming sequence specializing in the Second Age of Center-earth, hundreds of years earlier than J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books, we’re additionally getting individually produced theatrical films that proceed the legacy of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies.
These embrace Andy Serkis’ The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, which arrives in theaters in December 2027, and the tentatively titled The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Previous, aka “the Stephen Colbert one,” which remains to be in early levels and doesn’t but have a launch date.
Within the meantime, the small display screen is the place it’s at. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy returns November 11 on Prime Video.
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