While audiences have Peter Jackson‘s new incarnation of Lord of the Rings to look forward to, Amazon has just released the epic new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power season 2. This trailer drops just before the premiere of the second season, which debuts on Prime Video on August 9.
The description for season 2 reads, “Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will. Building on Season 1’s epic scope and ambition, Season 2 of Amazon’s TheLord of the Rings: The Rings of Power plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity. Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other.”
The show had recently given fans a look at this new season with their activation at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Two big details were revealed about this season at Comic-Con. One notable thing that fans will have to look forward to is that this season will be all about Sauron, and another big reveal is that an epic three-episode battle will take place.
During Comic-Con, actor Kevin Eldon, who will be playing one of this season’s Dwarf characters, talked about what fans will be able to see from these upcoming episodes, “Season 2 will introduce us to one of the most famous [dwarves]: Narvi (played by Eldon). Cited in J.R.R. Tolkien’s appendices to The Lord of the Rings as the dwarf who built the Doors of Durin (“Speak ‘friend’ and enter”), Narvi is set to play a significant role in the dwarven politics.” Eldon had spoken about his character, “He’s weaving in and out of the action throughout the season. He’s only mentioned in Tolkien’s appendices, and he’s described as a great craftsman. [Showrunners] J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay had little to go on, but I think we have successfully turned this footnote into a flesh-and-blood character. As well as being this fantastic architect, we see in season 2 that he’s an adviser as well. He’s a right-hand man of King Durin.”
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The Peacock streaming service recently announced that the first two episodes of the James Wan-produced series Teacup, which is an adaptation of the 1988 bestseller Stinger, written by Robert R. McCammon (pick up a copy HERE), are set to premiere on October 10th – and today, a new teaser trailer has arrived online to give us a preview of what this show has in store for us. You can check it out in the embed above. Along with the new teaser comes the unveiling of promo art and episode images, and those can be found at the bottom of this article.
Peacock will be releasing two episodes of Teacup weekly through Halloween.
McCammon’s novel has the following description: The story takes place during a single twenty-four hour period in Inferno, Texas. Inferno is a town in trouble, driven to the brink by racial tension, gang violence, and a collapsing economy. But things can always get worse, and they do so with astonishing speed when an unidentified spacecraft crash lands in the desert outside of town, followed by a second craft bearing the alien being who will soon be known as Stinger. Stinger is a kind of interstellar hunter on a mission he intends to complete, whatever the cost. He brings with him an endless array of technological marvels and an infinite capacity for destruction that threaten the existence of Inferno, its inhabitants, and the larger world beyond.
Teacup will follow a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat to survive.
James Wan is executive producing Teacup through his company Atomic Monster, alongside Michael Clear and Rob Hackett. Yellowstone consulting producer Ian McCulloch is a writer and executive producer on the show. Other executive producers include McCammon, Francisca X. Hu, Kevin Tancharoen, and E.L. Katz, who directed the first two episodes. Danielle Bozzone is overseeing the project for Atomic Monster. The show is coming our way from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.
McCulloch provided the following statement: “When Atomic Monster first approached me about creating a series adaptation of Robert McCammon’s Stinger—a no-holds-barred, gargantuan spectacle of a novel along the lines of The Stand, Independence Day and Mars Attacks—to be honest, I didn’t want to throw my hat in the ring. I’m not a spectacle writer. I’m a less-is-more writer. I gravitate more toward what are known as keyhole epics. Large stories told through small lenses. Think Signs, The Thing, A Quiet Place. But here’s the thing. I read Stinger and it stayed with me. Wouldn’t leave me alone. I just couldn’t stop thinking about its razor-sharp premise, how it unfolds over the course of a single harrowing day, and about the relatable and real family McCammon puts center stage. That’s when the flash bang-light bulb idea hit… What if I adapted Stinger in a way that honors the book and stays true to the kinds of stories I like to tell? Keep the conceit. Keep Stinger’s most effective elements. Take away the large ensemble. Take away the giant set pieces. Even take away the book’s crowded town setting. The adaptation would be like an acoustic guitar version of, say, a Radiohead song. It won’t have the production value, electronic instruments, loops, or synthesized bells and whistles but it will still have the melody, the structure, the lyrics, the real magic at the core, all the stuff that makes a great song agreatsong. All of which is to say I could suddenly see exactly what to do and how to do it. Two weeks later, Atomic Monster had the script for the first episode. Soon after that, Peacock bought it. Not so long after that, both my creative and career dreams actually started coming true as more scripts were written, hires made, actors cast, sets built, and production began… Of course, during production the series changed and evolved. Just as it should. Even the title’s different. Stinger is now Teacup. The reasons for this are too spoilery to share but watch the first few episodes and all will be revealed. Point being, the series is now very much its own thing: a puzzle-box mystery, an edge-of-your-seat thriller, a can’t-but-must look horror story, a family drama, a science fiction epic—of the keyhole variety, of course. But as singular, strange, and surprising as I hope Teacup is, all you need to do is peel away the layers, characters, situations, and mythology and look behind the thrills, chills, hairpin turns and make-you gaspreveals. Do all that and you’ll see, at its heart, Teacup is still very much standing on the shoulders of Stinger. Just as it should.“
Wan added: “After reading Robert McCammon’s book Stinger, the entire team at Atomic Monster felt a spark. The story had all the ingredients for a captivating series and Ian McCulloch had a vision to bring it to life in a fresh way that was both startling and darkly atmospheric, but filled with a rich sense of humanity — often lacking in edgy narratives. Add in our incredibly talented cast led by Yvonne Strahovski, Scott Speedman and Chaske Spencer and fans are in for a true edge-of-your-seat experience. Teacup defies easy labels. It’s a genre-bending blend of horror, mystery, and drama, with layers that unfold like a captivating puzzle. It goes beyond chills and thrills and holds up a mirror to humanity, exploring the darkness that resides within us all. We hope you enjoy this wild ride as much as we’ve loved creating it!“
Are you looking forward to Teacup? Watch the new teaser and check out the images, then let us know by leaving a comment below.
TEACUP — “You Don’t Know What It Means To Win” Episode 106 — Pictured: (l-r) Caleb Dolden as Arlo Chenoweth, Luciano Leroux as Nicholas Shanley, Emilie Bierre as Meryl Chenoweth — (Photo by: Mark Hill/PEACOCK)TEACUP — “This Is Nowhere, Part One” Episode 107 — Pictured: Scott Speedman as James Chenoweth — (Photo by: Mark Hill/PEACOCK)TEACUP — “You Don’t Know What It Means To Win” Episode 106 — Pictured: (l-r) Scott Speedman as James Chenoweth, Caleb Dolden as Arlo Chenoweth, Emilie Bierre as Meryl Chenoweth, Yvonne Strahovski as Maggie Chenoweth— (Photo by: Mark Hill/PEACOCK)TEACUP — “This Is Nowhere, Part One” Episode 107 — Pictured: Yvonne Strahovski as Maggie Chenoweth — (Photo by: Mark Hill/PEACOCK)TEACUP — “Quite For No Reason” Episode 103 — Pictured: (l-r) Diany Rodriguez as Valeria Shanley, Kathy Baker as Ellen Chenoweth — (Photo by: Mark Hill/PEACOCK)TEACUP — “Quite For No Reason” Episode 103 — Pictured: Chaske Spencer as Ruben Shanley — (Photo by: Mark Hill/PEACOCK)TEACUP — “You Don’t Know What It Means To Win” Episode 106 — Pictured: (l-r) Boris McGiver as Donald Kelly, Scott Speedman as James Chenoweth — (Photo by: Mark Hill/PEACOCK)
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