Prime Video‘s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is already waiting for a fourth season.
With the present’s third season set to premiere in November, the present’s UK-based manufacturing is eyeing a schedule that features preproduction on a fourth season this fall, with taking pictures to start in early 2027.
To be clear, season 4 shouldn’t be formally greenlit, however Prime Video has continued to be very bullish about persevering with its piece of The Lord of the Rings franchise, which is predicated on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Second Age appendices.
Amazon says the Amazon MGM Studios-produced collection has attracted over 185 million viewers worldwide and “is one of the highest performing and most-viewed titles ever on Prime Video.” The primary season marked the most important launch of any Prime Video collection ever. The second season additionally carried out effectively, debuting atop Nielsen’s Streaming High 10 chart in 2024.
The third season will jump ahead “several years” from season two, and takes place at “the height of the War of the Elves and Sauron, as the Dark Lord seeks to craft the One Ring that will give him the edge he needs to win the war, bind all peoples to his will — and at last rule all Middle-earth.”
Given the discharge cadence of the primary three seasons, and the corporate’s present season 4 manufacturing plan, the fourth season appears prone to drop in 2028. When Amazon acquired the tv rights for The Lord of the Rings appendices from the Tolkien Property in 2017, it additionally made a five-season manufacturing dedication on the time.
The information comes amid a surge in LOTR growth on the movie aspect. Warner Bros. has ramped up mining of its LOTR rights — to Tolkien’s Third Age — for story slivers that may be price fleshing out as function movies. First up is The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, directed by Andy Serkis, which is scheduled for launch Dec. 17, 2027. Along with Serkis reprising his performance-capture function of Gollum from Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy, the movie additionally has Ian McKellen and Elijah Wooden reprising their roles as Gandalf and Frodo, respectively, and Jamie Dornan getting into the function of Aragorn. Set between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, the movie tracks Aragorn and Gandalf’s pressing search to search out Gollum earlier than Sauron’s forces do.
In March, Peter Jackson introduced the event of one more movie with the working title The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Previous, which is about a long time after The Return of the King (but consists of occasions from chapters in The Fellowship of the Ring which have been disregarded of Jackson’s trilogy). Stephen Colbert is co-writing the script alongside together with his son Peter McGee and Philippa Boyens.
Earlier this month, Jackson advised Deadline that he and Warners have been additionally in dialogue with Tolkien’s property to adapt beforehand unavailable works, similar to The Silmarillion, a group of myths and tales set in Center-earth. Jackson famous that there’s “a lot more Tolkien writing that would actually make great movies.”
