Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” series is moving forward with a second season, TheWrap has confirmed.
The production is set to take a four-to-five month hiatus after filming the first two episodes of Season 1, during which time showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay and the show’s writing team will begin mapping out the story for Season 2.
The newly extended Season 1 hiatus will span until the end of the winter season in New Zealand, where the show is filmed.
The series, which remains untitled, is set in the Middle-Earth of the Oscar-winning film franchise and will take place in the period before the events of the first film, “The Fellowship of the Ring.”