Additionally, she’s no stranger to Amazon Prime originals, having been part of the cast of 2018’s Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Kavenagh was most recently seen co-starring in Australian drama My First Summer and recurred on TV series The Gloaming for Australia’s Stan streaming service. Markella Kavenagh was revealed back in July 2019 as the first cast member for the series, reportedly set to play a character named Tyra. Consequently, with the show’s Second Age setting (the era of the Rings of Power,) the inclusion of Galadriel seems to signal a story centered on Sauron’s deceitful claim to fame. Yet, said powers happen to be rooted in her possession of Nenya, one of the three Rings of Power bestowed to the race of Elves a trinket whose powers come with a caveat since, thanks to Sauron’s trickery, it is ultimately subordinate to the One Ring.
Galadriel, an ancient elf from Valinor who predates the First Age, famously used her long-honed magic powers to aid Frodo and the Fellowship in their journey during the Rings Trilogy. Clark also notably appeared in horror film Crawl, Benedict Cumberbatch miniseries Patrick Melrose and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. She also recurred in Season 1 episodes of HBO’s His Dark Materials as the daemon-deprived Sister Clara, and fielded the major role of Mina in the recent Netflix/BBC Dracula miniseries. She will play a younger version of Galadriel, the ancient elven Lady of Lothlórien, famously played by Cate Blanchett in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and (in an appearance anachronistic to the novel) The Hobbit films.Ĭlark put in a dark performance as the star of excellent horror film Saint Maud, in which she played a piously deranged hospice nurse. Morfydd Clark has a lead role as a familiar character, as first reported by Variety. Poulter, who was cast back in September 2019, reportedly withdrew from the series over scheduling conflicts. While little is known about the character, he was initially referred to as “Beldor,” and is said to be heroic. Robert Aramayo, best known as Young Ned Stark on Game of Thrones, fields the lead role for which the departed Will Poulter was previously tapped. – In another Peter-related angle, the addition of Peter Mullan should delight fans of HBO’s Westworld who know him as James Delos and his “fidelity” tested robotic doppelgangers. Interestingly, the addition of Peter Tait marks the return of an alumnus from The Lord of the Rings films, since he was in Return of the King as Shagrat, the Uruk-hai who carried the venom-paralyzed, web-wrapped Frodo back to the Tower of Cirith Ungol before getting into a scrap (over Frodo’s Mithril shirt,) with the bossy Orc known as Gorbag. Maxim Baldry ( Years and Years)-whose addition was reported by Collider back in October 2019-is now officially confirmed, joined by newcomer Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman ( Top of the Lake), Anthony Crum ( Krystal), Maxine Cunliffe ( Power Rangers Megaforce), Trystan Gravelle ( A Discovery of Witches), Sir Lenny Henry ( Broadchurch), Thusitha Jayasundera ( Humans), Fabian McCallum ( You, Me and The Apocalypse), Simon Merrells ( Knightfall), Geoff Morrell ( Harrow), Peter Mullan ( Westworld), Lloyd Owen ( Cleaning Up), Augustus Prew ( The Morning Show), Peter Tait ( Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), Alex Tarrant ( Mean Mums), Leon Wadham ( Power Rangers Beast Morphers), Benjamin Walker ( Jessica Jones) and Sara Zwangobani ( Home and Away). Here’s the rest of the announced additions: With that set, here’s everything you need to know about the project! While COVID-19 temporarily halted its New Zealand production back in March 2020, progress ultimately resumed in late-September.
The Lord of the Rings TV series is set during Middle Earth’s Second Age-that’s thousands of years before Bilbo Baggins, Gollum or Aragorn ever existed! Moreover, the end of said age was a full millennium before the Wizards (Gandalf, Saruman, et al.) even arrived in Middle Earth, which makes the series a prequel in an epochal sense.Īmazon hopes the new Lord of the Rings TV show will be the next Game of Thrones, evidenced by its early Season 2 order. Bayona, who helmed Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the first two episodes will be directed by J.A. Setting the tone for this small screen return to the world of J.R.R. Amazon’s purportedly billion-dollar-budgeted Lord of the Rings TV series will take place LONG before the events of Peter Jackson’s movies.