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Prime Video The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Already looking forward to season 4.
With Season 3 of the series premiering in November, UK production is eyeing a schedule that includes pre-production of Season 4 this fall, with filming beginning in early 2027.
To be clear, Season 4 isn’t officially greenlit, but Prime Video has continued to be very optimistic about continuing its work Lord of the Rings franchise, which is based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s Second Age Supplements.
Produced by Amazon MGM Studios, the series has attracted more than 185 million viewers worldwide and is “one of the highest-performing and most-watched titles ever on Prime Video,” Amazon says. The first season marked the biggest launch for any Prime Video series ever. The second season also performed well, debuting atop Nielsen’s Streaming Top 10 chart in 2024.
Season 3 will pick up several years after Season 2, and is set at “the climax of the Elven-Sauron War, as the Dark Lord seeks to forge the One Ring that will give him the advantage he needs to win the war, bind all peoples to his will — and finally rule all of Middle-earth.”
Given the release pace of the first three seasons, and the company’s current season 4 production plan, it seems likely that season 4 will drop in 2028. When Amazon acquired the TV rights to Lord of the Rings Supplements from the Tolkien Estate in 2017, and had also made a five-season production commitment at the time.
This news comes amid a rise in… LOTR Development on the cinematic side. Warner Bros. to intensify its mining operations LOTR Rights – to Tolkien’s third era – to segments of the story that might be worth turning into feature films. First up is lord of the rings: Search for Gollumdirected by Andy Serkis, is scheduled for release on December 17, 2027. Additionally, Serkis will reprise his role as Gollum in a performance capture from Peter Jackson’s film. LOTR Trilogy, the film also stars Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood reprising their roles as Gandalf and Frodo, respectively, and Jamie Dornan plays Aragorn. Set between The hobbit and Fellowship of the RingThe film follows Aragorn and Gandalf’s urgent quest to find Gollum before Sauron’s forces do.
In March, Peter Jackson announced the development of another film with the working title The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Pastwhich is set decades later The return of the king (It does however include events from chapters in The Fellowship of the Ring that were excluded from Jackson’s trilogy). Stephen Colbert is co-writing the script with his son, Peter McGee, and Philippa Boyens.
Jackson said earlier this month Delivery time He and Warner were also discussing Tolkien’s ownership of adapting previously unavailable works, e.g The Silmarilliona collection of myths and stories set in Middle-earth. Jackson noted that there is “a lot of Tolkien’s writing that would make really great movies.”
