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‘Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power’s JD Payne & Patrick McKay On Their Deep Dive Into Tolkien Mythology For Season 2 Of Epic Amazon Series
'Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power's JD Payne & Patrick McKay On Their Deep Dive Into Tolkien Mythology For Season Two Of Epic Amazon Series
We would never sacrifice the core themes, ideas, or the heart of the work for television, but we want this to be an entertaining ride, not just for super fans who know all the Robert Plant lyrics…but I always like to say for my mother who never understood Lord of the Rings, tried to read it, didn’t get it, tried to watch the movies and said, I don’t know, huh? You read the books and you get these blips of moments where orcs are kind of on their own and they’re saying, Hey, what if one day there could be a place just for us, we could have our own little land or our own little cottage by the sea, so to speak, where they have dreams, they have aspirations, they don’t just want to be mindless killing machines. I look at these magnificent stone-carved architectural landmarks that define the great cities of Middle-earth that you’ve put in Season Two, and I wonder: what does doing it with VFX and computers give you that Jackson didn’t have, in terms of efficiency and ability to take the ambition even further than when he had to film the miniatures?
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