We spoke w/ 'Rings of Power' director J.A. Bayona about bringing the Second Age to life.
Last year, Prime Video’s series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power took J.R.R. Tolkien fans somewhere they’d never seen before: the Second Age. The show, which became the streaming service’s most-watched series ever, takes place thousands of years before the fellowship formed, and Rings of Power director, J.A. Bayona , was tasked with finding and setting that tone at the helm of Episodes 1 and 2.
COLLIDER: I’ve said this to you before, I'll say it again, I really loved your work on this series, and I just want to say thanks, you did a great job.
BAYONA: Well, I read the books again, they were an incredible help because Tolkien is so detailed in everything that he describes that it was a great help. But also, we started to look for art, not the movies because we are talking about a different age, so the movies were not really helpful, it was more about focusing on art. I remember that talking to Kate [Hawley], the costume designer, or Ramsey [Avery], the production designer.
[Laughs] You're in pre-production, you haven't stepped foot on set, it's coming; what are you most nervous about as a director to pull off filming on set with everything you had to deal with? BAYONA: Actually, I did a big, big two-hour movie. It was like shooting a blockbuster, like a big, big Hollywood movie because we had so many set pieces and so complicated– but also, to create those worlds from scratch, because there was nothing, almost anything, before I got there, so we had to create that from scratch. So it was not only two episodes, it was to create all those worlds to build up all those worlds that will need to last for the rest of the season.
It's crazy down there. So you're not directing any of Season 2, but assuming the show comes back for Season 3, which I'm guessing it will, have you talked to them about coming back?
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