“Prepare yourselves.”
That’s what a sword weilding Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) declares to Elrond (Robert Aramayo) and her other warrior companions in the just released teaser trailer for Season 2 of Prime Video‘s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Season 2 of the J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation is coming on August 29, and prepare yourself just might be an understatement.
One word: Sauron. Another word: Unleashed.
Much grittier and darker than most of Season 1, the just released peek at Season 2 also gives a brief look at the Charlie Vicker’s portrayed Mordor master’s Dark Tower. As well, there’s some new rings and their creation in there too, and one Hell of an explosion that could rival Mount Doom’s big blow-up in Season 1. Or, as Khazad-dûm Prince Durin (Owain Arthur) puts it in said minute-long teaser: “an evil, ancient and powerful has returned” — as you can see above.
As well as the teaser look at the fate of Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots, Prime Video at their Upfront presentation today also dropped some LOTR key art.
If you had any doubt that Vicker’s evil Sauron was the center of the upcoming season, this poster should put that to rest.
With much flourish, the J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay showrun LOTR: The Rings of Power premiered on Prime Video on September 1, 2022 with two premiere episodes, and ran for until October 24 that year. After a vast battle for Middle Earth in the preceding episodes, the finale had a jaw dropping reveal that Sauron had been hiding in plain sight the whole time.
A big swing by the Jennifer Salke run streamer, the first season of Rings of Power cost about $700 million, when you include the cost to obtain the rights from the J.R.R. Tolkien estate.
Over the run of the first season, Deadline took fans behind the scenes on LOTR; The Rings of Power with our exclusive video aftershow Inside the Ring. Garnering a dust-up between Neil Gaiman and Elon Musk, among many reactions, the eight-episode first season had been watched by over 100 million viewers globally by the last week of 2022, according to Amazon. Trivial Pursuit moment: that viewership made the series the most watched ever at that time on the Jeff Bezos-founded steamer.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 is executive produced by showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay.
Fellow EPs on the epic scale multi-season series are Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, and Gennifer Hutchison, along with co-executive producer and director Charlotte Brändström. Kate Hazell and Helen Shang produce too, with co-producers Clare Buxton, Andrew Lee, Glenise Mullins, and Matthew Penry-Davey. Season Two of LOTR: The Rings of Power also sees Sanaa Hamri and Louise Hooper among its directors.