A TV series to dominate them all.

The Lord of the Rings

, the blockbuster adapted from the universe of JRR Tolkien, will be broadcast worldwide from September 2, 2022, announced Monday Amazon, which hopes to compete with

Game of Thrones

.

Amazon, which acquired the television rights to this cult work in 2017, for an estimated sum of $ 250 million, said in a statement that the "shooting of the first season (had) ended today (Monday) in New Zealand ”.

Thousands of years before Bilbo

Set in Middle-earth and featuring some emblematic characters from the saga, the series begins with new adventures taking place during the second age, "in a period of relative peace, thousands of years before the events of

The Hobbit

books

and

Lord of the Rings

by JRR Tolkien, ”Amazon Studios added. But the image with a character dressed in white in front of a splendid Elven structure maintains the doubt: many Internet users are convinced that it is the city of Tirion, during the First Age, for which Amazon in theory did not rights. However, it is not excluded that it is a prologue.

The episodes of the first season will be broadcast week after week, said the group, which released a first image of the series Monday on social networks.

The cast includes Cynthia Addai-Robinson, known for her role in the Spartacus series, and Robert Amarayo, who played in

Game of Thrones

, which has become in eight seasons a monument of the fantasy genre.

Swedish-born Welsh actress Morfydd_Clark will play a young Galadriel,

Amazon's big bet

With this adaptation over several seasons of Tolkien's literary phenomenon, already successfully resumed in cinema in the 2000s, Amazon hopes to score points in the merciless battle waged by its distribution platform Prime Video, against Netflix and Disney in particular.

The American giant founded by Jeff Bezos acquired at the end of May, for 8.45 billion dollars, the almost century-old Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which allowed it to add great classics such as James Bond, Rocky to its repertoire. or the

Silence of the Lambs

.

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