By Chris Evangelista/June 12, 2018 9:30 am EST
And what about Peter Jackson? Is he involved? One report had Jackson claiming he had no involvement with the show. Then, almost immediately after that report broke, another report surfaced with Jackson saying he was involved in some capacity. So what’s going on here?
We’ll Know More in a Month
Peter Jackson
The Peter Jackson conversations, right now we’re right in the middle of them. It’s like, how much do you want to be involved, how little? I know there’s been some discussion, and he’s even said some things, but as far as I’m aware, the latest is that we’re just in a conversation with him about how much or how little he would be involved.
One Big Series
When pressed for info on which characters those might be, Salke feigns ignorance, saying: “I can’t give that out, I don’t have anything for it.” Salke’s “one big series” claim can be interpreted to mean that the show is going to have a continuing storyline from season to season, like Game of Thrones. Or it can just simply mean that this show is going to be big, making great use of the rumored billion dollar budget.
I think you can know that we’re not remaking the movies, but we’re also not starting from scratch. So, it’ll be characters you love.
Salke also says that the show will follow the lead of Peter Jackson’s original trilogy and use New Zealand as a stand-in for Middle-earth:
I think we might be in New Zealand. I don’t know, but we’re going to have to go somewhere interesting that could provide those locations in a really authentic way, because we want it to look incredible. There’s no shortage of ambition for the project. We’ll go where we need to go to make it happen.
