Amazon eyeing 2021 debut for Lord of the Rings show?
Have you heard? Amazon is making a wildly lavish show set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. For such a big production, we still know relatively little about it, but it looks like things are coming together.
We reported a while back that the show was aiming to carve out a home base for itself at a massive studio space in the Leith neighborhood in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Disney shot chunks of Avengers: Infinity War. According to a new report from Daily Record, a deal is near completion with filming on target to begin in August of this year. Per EdinburghLive, producers are hoping to premiere the show in 2021.
Today we launch a tender process inviting private developers to lease, refurbish and operate a permanent world-class Film and TV production facility at 31 Bath Road (formerly the Pelamis building), Port of Leith, Edinburgh. Notes of interest by 22 Jan 2019 https://t.co/xALS3kzDZw pic.twitter.com/lNIpDH2AHa
— Screen Scotland (@screenscots) December 7, 2018
“A deal is as good as done to confirm five years of filming in the new Leith studio,” said a source for Daily Record. “As soon as the venue is ready for purpose, filming will start. It’s a big boost for Scotland because the filming was originally supposed to take place in New Zealand, but it’s good to see Scotland winning the contract.”
Game of Thrones brought a ton of money into Northern Ireland. If this show succeeds, it could be mean similar things for Scotland, something I’m sure the local authorities are salivating over.
According to that source, some filming will be done in New Zealand, where much of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy was shot. That being said, the bulk of the filming is expected to take place in Scotland.
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Amazon’s show is set to take place during the Second Age of Middle-Earth, when Sauron was getting busy forging the One Ring. Recently, it was announced that former Game of Thrones scribe Bryan Cogman had come aboard the show, to work with showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay. I guess when you’re spending as much as Amazon is, you can afford to bring in the right people.
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