‘The Rings of Energy’ Season 2 Begins Manufacturing within the U.Okay. – Hollywood Reporter

It’s official: Amazon’s The Rings of Energy has began filming its subsequent season.

Manufacturing bought underway on Monday on the new hub at Bray Studios simply outdoors London.

The information follows the primary official Nielsen ratings being released Thursday for the Prime Video sequence, displaying The Rings of Energy topped the streaming charts for its debut week with 1.3 billion minutes seen (probably an Amazon sequence file on condition that solely two hours had been launched).

The primary season of the present was filmed in New Zealand over an epic stretch of 18 months throughout the pandemic. For season 2, which can encompass eight episodes, Amazon switched the present’s manufacturing to the U.Okay., which is taken into account extra economical and can also be the place the corporate is establishing a multi-show hub.

The Rings of Energy is approaching its seventh and penultimate episode of its debut season this week. The present chronicles writer J.R.R. Tolkien’s fabled Second Age, as a bunch of disparate heroes step by step come collectively to battle the return of darkness to Center-earth.

The ensemble forged consists of 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, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman and Sara Zwangobani.

The manufacturing has additionally introduced {that a} new character, Círdan (not but forged), one of many oldest and wisest of the elves, can be becoming a member of the ensemble.