The most expensive American TV series in history, "The Lord of the Rings", is scheduled to be broadcast on September 2, 2022

The Lord of the Rings, which many fans have been looking forward to, is finally here. Amazon has now publicly announced that it will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 2, 2022, with a total of 8 episodes in the first season.

The Lord of the Rings series is directed by J.A. Bayona and Wayne Yeh, and is produced by John D. Payne & Patrick McKay. It stars Robert Aramayo, Owen Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Ishmael Cruz Cordova, Joseph Mahler and others.

The Lord of the Rings series is set in the Second Age, thousands of years before the film versions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take the audience to an era where powerful nations have been formed, nations have risen and fallen into dust, humble heroes have gone through hardships, hopes are hanging by a thread, and Tolkien's most powerful villain wants to drag the world into darkness.

Previous reports showed that the production cost of the first season of Amazon's highly anticipated "Lord of the Rings" series will be as high as 465 million US dollars (approximately RMB 3 billion).

It is worth mentioning that the production cost of the first two seasons of "The Lord of the Rings" was $500 million, which means that the final production cost will be far more than this number. After all, the first season alone cost almost $500 million. This may be the most expensive series ever.