Bryan Cogman is working on Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show

Game of Thrones writer Bryan Cogman has many notable accomplishments to his name, among them writer “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” the only episode of the show’s eighth season to receive universal acclaim. As A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin put it, Cogman was “the third head of the dragon” on Game of Thrones, guiding it over the years.

In the aftermath of the show, we’ve been eager to see what he’d do next. He was working on one of several Game of Thrones prequel projects for HBO, but his was shelved. After that he moved over to Amazon, but we weren’t sure what he was working on…until now.

The news actually came first from Martin himself, who has a habit of letting things slip on his Not a Blog. He was writing about the ending to Game of Thrones, but couldn’t help himself. “Amazon scooped up Bryan Cogman, and put him to work on developing shows of his own, as well as helping out on their big Tolkien project,” he wrote. Bingo.

The next day, Lord of the Rings fansite TheOneRing.net reported that Cogman had signed on to Amazon’s wildly expensive Lord of the Rings show, into which Jeff Bezos has poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all TV. But in a good way.

And then later that same day, Variety confirmed that Cogman had been “signed on to consult” with showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay about the show. On Game of Thrones, Cogman was in charge of keeping the lore straight, and I wouldn’t surprised if he has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Middle-earth, too. Still, it’s kind of funny that he once again seems to be working under showrunners on a high-priced fantasy drama rather than running a series himself.

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We still don’t know much about the Lord of the Rings show. Early reports had it being about the adventures of a young Aragorn, but more recently it looks like it will be set during the Second Age of Middle-earth, during the forging of the Rings of Power.

We also know that the team is going to have to start filming the show, whatever is, by later this year. If they don’t, under the deal Amazon signed with the Tolkien estate, the TV rights could revert. They have their mountain to climb.

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