By Filming on the second season of Amazon Prime Video’s mega-budget “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” series wrapped back in June last year and will aim to be one of the biggest streaming launches of the year.
Charlotte Brändström, who served as one of the directors on the new season, has revealed that the production is aiming to solve one of the complaints people had with the first season – its glossiness.
One of the defining elements of Peter Jackson’s original ‘Rings’ trilogy was how tactile it was – blood, mud, sweat, rain, all combined with the stunning New Zealand vistas to ground this fantasy world as a very real place.
The Middle Earth of the ‘Rings of Power’, on the other hand, was overly pristine and very digital in feeling. That will see a change with the new season as Brändström tells MovieZine that the show will go bleaker and grittier in terms of tone and aesthetics:
“What I know and what I can say for a fact is that it’s going to be darker, and it’s going to be edgier and more character-driven. I still think that we have some very interesting episodes coming up.
I watched all of them over Christmas, just the cuts. I think it’s going to be a very good season. We tried to make it more gritty, a little bit more dirty I guess. And not in the image, but to make it as authentic as possible. We have some very surprising twists and turns in it as well.”
Prime Video is yet to announce an expected release window for the new season, but the first premiered just over a year after filming wrapped. As the second finished filming in June, it’s looking like a late Summer/early Fall bow will be in the cards.
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