The Lord of the Rings followers are in deep hypothesis mode, pouring over each element of the sequence, The Rings of Power, to decode the fantastical world of the upcoming spinoff, questioning if the sequence will take the Game of Thrones route. Now, the present’s co-creator JD Payne has set the report straight, saying that fantasy style is the one string connecting the 2 reveals collectively.
“Maybe, (people are comparing the LOTR franchise with Game of Thrones) because they both are set in fantasy worlds. But in terms of the feeling of being in those worlds — being in Westeros feels very different from being in The Shire or being anywhere in Middle Earth,” Payne tells us as he takes out time for a candid chat from his busy Asia-Pacific premiere go to in Mumbai.
“They (the shows) explore very different themes. What’s so amazing about fantasy is that we can explore all kinds of different aspects of the human condition. And Middle Earth explores some timeless themes of underdogs who are performing great feats, the importance of friendship, good and evil, and the corrupting influence of power. We wish them well in their explorations as well,” notes Payne, who has co-created the bold present with Patrick McKay.
Infused with an optimistic concept of discovering hope in the dead of night hours of actuality, the prequel sequence opens a brand new chapter from the beloved world of JRR Tolkien’s authentic The Lord of the Rings novels and director Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning trilogy of movies based mostly on the literary work.
Opening up about tracing the world, and the stress that comes with it, Payne says, “Tolkien left a lot of room for exploration, and we needed to make sure that we were finding what was there, but filling the holes in Tolkien way. We ended up consulting a lot of experts and the Tolkien family to make sure that when we were inventing, we were doing it in a way that was respectful”.
However, the crew met with unrest over a casting name of an intimacy coordinator which made folks marvel if the present will steer away from the unique world, by introducing nudity and intercourse scenes.
To this hypothesis, Payne has one reply — If you might be sufficiently old to learn the books, you might be sufficiently old to observe the present.
“We can put people’s minds to rest there. I have a seven-year-old son, there are things that would be too scary for him probably because we do have some blood and violence, and it is a scary adventure. But there’s nothing that I would think would be expletive or that a mother would be ashamed to watch with her son next to her,” says the creator, who took a while out from his busy schedule to explore Mumbai, and was immediately charmed by the Indian tradition.
While he’s ready for combined reactions to the present, he says folks will resonate with the story of hope and good over evil.
“It comes with hope that acknowledges the real pain of human suffering. What it is to have to lose people either to death or to evil. But with this genuine darkness, there’s that one ray of sunlight that says, if you keep walking, if you stay true to your friends, then you can do things larger than the armies of evil, which can have a real different impact in this world. I think that’s a message people need to hear,” Payne ends with a promise to come back again to India quickly together with his spouse and explore the tradition as a vacationer.