The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy was well-received by followers, and its second season has been extremely anticipated since filming started in October 2022. The manufacturing hasn’t been with out its struggles, although. The Amazon Prime Video collection’ various solid has been compelled to defend the present amid on-line backlash — even whereas including a number of new actors for Season 2 — and in March it was revealed {that a} horse had died throughout manufacturing. The Rings of Energy set skilled one other (seemingly minor) setback April 3, when a hearth broke out on set. Perhaps that type of factor is anticipated when coping with the fiery lands of Mordor?
Filming was halted for about an hour, Deadline studies, after {an electrical} fireplace broke out at Bray Studios within the UK. The blaze reportedly began in a warehouse on the sting of the again lot. In keeping with a press release from the Royal Berkshire Fireplace and Rescue Service:
At 12:26pm on Monday, 3 April, we acquired studies of a hearth at Bray Studios close to Windsor. Upon arrival, crews found a hearth in a single-storey warehouse.
The rescue service confirmed that engines from Bracknell, Slough and Maidenhead Fireplace Stations have been all dispatched to the scene. No accidents have been reported, and it hasn’t been confirmed presently how a lot injury was incurred for what’s already one of many costliest TV initiatives of all time. With filming resuming shortly after the fires have been put out, it appears the blaze was a lot much less dramatic than these of Sauron’s lair.
The hearth comes simply over every week after it was discovered {that a} horse had died on the set of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy. The horse reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest throughout a rehearsal interval earlier than the beginning of filming on March 21, whereas it was standing amongst 20 or so different horses. Sources say it wasn’t displaying any indicators of in poor health well being forward of time.
Even so, and regardless of this being the primary reported dying of any animals in The Satan’s Horsemen secure, PETA issued a plea for filmmakers to make use of humane measures — together with CGI or mechanical rigs — relatively than reside horses in its scenes.
Amazon has promised greater and higher issues to return in Season 2, after a lot story needed to be established in Season 1, and anticipation is excessive significantly after a season’s value of hypothesis resulted in that massive Sauron reveal on the finish of the primary providing of The Lord of the Rings prequel. Loads of questions stay for Season 2 that followers can’t wait to have answered, so hopefully from right here on out, the drama received’t spill over from the scripts to the manufacturing.
Whereas we await extra data concerning a launch date, Season 1 could be streamed with an Amazon Prime subscription, and you can even revisit The Lord of the Rings films.
