In this bonus episode looking specifically at the new Lord of the Rings series, The Rings of Power, Justin also introduces TGCMel to the Geek Cave audience in her debut episode!
(Honestly, she’s the most knowledgeable about Tolkien among our entire staff)
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power SDCC 2022 Trailer
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power takes place during the Second Age of Middle Earth, thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. In an age of relative peace, evil returns to Middle Earth and threatens to cover the entire world in darkness.
The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power stars Morfydd Clark, Robert Aramayo, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Simon Merrells, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, Sara Zwangobani, Ian Blackburn, Beau Cassidy, Kip Chapman, Amelie Child-Villiers, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Will Fletcher, Thusitha Jayasundera, Joseph Mawle, Fabian McCallum, Geoff Morrell, Peter Mullan, Augustus Prew, Peter Tait, and Alex Tarrant.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power hits Amazon Prime on September 2, 2022.
Amazon’s The Boys spinoff which is set in Vought’s college for young adult superheroes is titled Gen V. Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters will serve as showrunners on the new series. The series will star Jaz Sinclair, Lizzie Broadway, Chance Perdomo, Shelley Conn, Maddie Phillips, London Thor, Derek Luh, Asa Germann, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sean Patrick Thomas and Marco Pigossi.
Check out the cast announcing the new title on The Boys’ Twitter page here.
(Image from The Boys)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power takes place during the Second Age of Middle Earth, thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Beginning in an age of relative peace, evil returns to Middle Earth and threatens to cover the entire world in darkness.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power hits Amazon Prime on September 2, 2022.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power takes place during the Second Age of Middle Earth, thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power hits Amazon Prime on September 2, 2022.
Based on Penny Marshall’s 1992 film, Amazon’s A League of Their Own series will widen “the lens to tell the story of an entire generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball. The show takes a deeper look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a whole new ensemble of characters as they carve their own paths towards the field, both in the League and outside of it.” (Prime Video)
A League of Their Own stars Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kelly McCormack, Roberta Colindrez, Prescilla Delgado, Nick Offerman, Molly Ephraim, Kate Berlant, and Melanie Field. The series is co-created by Jacobson and Will Graham.
A League of Their Own hits Amazon Prime on August 10, 2022.
Three PlayStation franchises are reportedly getting series adaptations. A Horizon series is in the works for Netflix. A God of War series is in the works for Amazon. The Gran Turismo series does not yet have a network or platform.
(Image - Cover of Guerrilla Games and Sony Interactive’s Horizon: Zero Dawn)
Amazon has revived the Canadian sketch comedy The Kids in the Hall with Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.
The Kids in the Hall hits Amazon Prime on May 13, 2022. You can check out the Red Band trailer here.
CCH Pounder, Jason Watkins, Fiona Shaw, L. Scott Caldwell, Joy Richardson, and Lachele Carl have joined the cast of Amazon’s Anansi Boys, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. They join the previously cast Malachi Kirby (Charles Nancy and Spider), Delroy Lindo (Mr. Nancy / Anansi), Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn (Rosie Noah), and Grace Saif (Detective Constable Daisy Day). Pounder will portray Mrs. Higgler. Watkins will portray Graham Coats. Shaw will portray Maeve Livingstone. Caldwell will portray Mrs. Dunwiddy. Richardson will portray Mrs. Bustamonte. Carl will portray Miss Noles.
Gaiman and Sir Lenny Henry are writing the six-episode limited series along with Arvind Ethan David, Kara Smith, and Racheal Ofori. Gaiman and Douglas Mackinnon will serve as co-showrunners.
Anansi Boys follows timid Londoner Charles Nancy. Charles finds out that his father, Mr. Nancy, has died. Charles then discovers that Mr. Nancy is in fact the trickster spider god Anansi. Also, Charles’ heretofore unknown brother Spider is about to make Charles’ life very interesting.
Deadline broke the news.
(First Edition Cover of Anansi Boys)
Walton Goggins has been cast in Amazon Prime’s Fallout series adaptation. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are developing the series for Amazon Studios, Kilter Films, Bethesda Game Studios, and Bethesda Softworks. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are onboard as showrunners.
Fallout is a post-apocalyptic RPG series set after an atomic war. Some humans survived the nuclear fallout above ground living in the Wasteland while others stayed safe in radiation-proof Vaults (providing their Vaults were not horrible experiments).
(Image from Them That Follow)
Amazon Prime has released a slew of posters featuring the hands - some ringed, some not - of various characters for The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power.
Check out the above poster and others on The Lord of the Rings on Prime Twitter page.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series takes place during the Second Age of Middle Earth, thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power hits Amazon Prime on September 2, 2022.
(Image - Character Poster for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power via The Lord of the Rings on Prime Twitter page)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Title Announcement
Amazon Prime’s Lord of the Rings prequel series has a title: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series takes place during the Second Age of Middle Earth, thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power hits Amazon Prime on September 2, 2022.
Amazon Prime’s The Legend of Vox Machina is coming early and we are 100% okay with that. The series will now release on January 28, 2022.
The Legend of Vox Machina, based on the characters from Critical Role, is an adult animated series. The story “follows Vox Machina, a band of misfits with a fondness for boozing and brawling. In a desperate attempt to pay off their mounting bar tab, these unlikely heroes end up on a quest to save the realm of Exandria from dark magical forces.” (Amazon Prime)
The characters in The Legend of Vox Machina will be voiced by the original cast from Critical Role - Matthew Mercer, Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham. Sung Jin Ahn serves as the series’ supervising director. Character art is by Phil Bourassa. Neal Acree composed the score with Peter Habib and Mr. Fantastic writing and producing the original songs for Scanlan.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania stars the voice talents of Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kathryn Hahn, Jim Gaffigan, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Brian Hull, and Fran Drescher. The film is written and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania will release on Amazon Prime on January 14, 2022.
Amazon Prime’s first season of Reacher is based on Lee Child’s first JAck Reacher novel, The Killing Floor. Reacher has only recently become a civilian and is now a drifter exploring the United States. When he arrives in Margrave the town has its first homicide in decades.
Reacher stars Alan Ritchson, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, Chris Webster, Hugh Thompson, Maria Sten, Harvey Guillén, Kristin Kreuk, Currie Graham, Willie C. Carpenter, Maxwell Jenkins, Marc Bendavid, and Bruce McGill. Nick Santora serves as writer, showrunner, and an executive producer on the series.
Reacher hits Amazon Prime on February 4, 2022.
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