Amazon's LORD OF THE RINGS Series Casts GAME OF THRONES Actor Robert Aramayo
Amazon Studios has cast Game of Thrones actor Robert Aramayo to replace Will Poulter in the lead role of Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series. Poulter had to drop out of the running for the project due to a scheduling conflict.
Aramayo will be playing a character named Beldor, and other than that, we have no other information on the character to share with you. Amazon and the creative team are keeping the details on this show locked away for the time being.
Aramayo joins the previously cast Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, along with Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Maxim Baldry, and Ema Horvath. The series is being developed by writers JD Payne and Patrick McKay, while Game of Thrones alum Bryan Cogman will serve as a consulting producer. J.A. Bayona (A Monster Calls, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) is also set to direct multiple episodes.
The series will explore new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Fellowship of the Ring, and Amazon has committed to five seasons of the series, and they will spend over a billion dollars bringing the story to life. The show’s official Twitter account sent out an image of a map teasing the setting along with two messages: “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie,” as well as “Welcome to the Second Age.”
In the Tolkien mythology, the Second Age was the time in which the Rings of Power, including Sauron’s One Ring, came into existence. It was also teased that the film could involve the island of Numenor. The series will be shot in New Zealand, and the studio also announced that they are already moving forward on Season 2.
I’m extremely excited to see what this series actually ends up being!
Source: Deadline