‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Will Open With Double-Episode Premiere As Prime Video Reveals Exact Time Series Will Drop
Prime Video has announced ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power‘ will premiere with a double-bill, along with revealing the exact times the series will drop onto the streaming service globally.
The drama brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ books and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and one of the greatest villains that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.
Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.
Essentially, it will premiere at the same time everywhere, it’ll just be the 1st or 2nd of September, depending on the time zone. The series premiere days and times are as follows:
- 6 p.m. PDT — Thursday, September 1
- 9 p.m. EDT — Thursday, September 1
- 10 p.m. Brazil — Thursday, September 1
- 2 a.m. UK — Friday, 2 September
- 3 a.m. Central European Summer Time — Friday, September 2
- 5:30 a.m. India Standard Time — Friday, September 2
- 10 a.m. Japan Standard Time — Friday, September 2
- 11 a.m. Australia — Friday, September 2
- 1 p.m. New Zealand — Friday, September 2
For the following weeks, these are the timings:
- 9 p.m. PDT — Thursdays
- 12 a.m. EDT — Fridays
- 1 a.m. Brazil — Fridays
- 5 a.m. UK — Fridays
- 6 a.m. CEST — Fridays
- 9:30 a.m. IST — Fridays
- 1 p.m. JST — Fridays
- 2 p.m. AU — Fridays
- 4 p.m. NZ — Fridays
The series features Tolkien’s legendary characters from the island kingdom of Númenor including Isildur (Maxim Baldry), Elendil (Lloyd Owen), Pharazôn (Trystan Gravelle), and Queen Regent Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson). Additional Númenóreans also recently announced are Kemen (Leon Wadham) and Eärien (Ema Horvath). Other key cast members include Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), High King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker), the Harfoots Marigold Brandyfoot (Sara Zwangobani), Elanor ‘Nori’ Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenagh), Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards) and Sadoc Burrows (Sir Lenny Henry), The Stranger (Daniel Weyman), the Dwarves King Durin III (Peter Mullan) and Prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur), Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), and Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova).
he series is led by showrunners and executive producers J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay and stars a celebrated cast led by Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.
Joining Payne & McKay are executive producers Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado, as well as producers Ron Ames and Christopher Newman. Wayne Che Yip is co-executive producer and directs, along with J.A. Bayona and Charlotte Brändström.
‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ will launch on Prime Video UK on Friday, 2nd September 2022 at 2am with a double-bill. Following episodes will be released weekly at 5am.
