Lord of the Rings: If Peter Jackson were to direct the Amazon series, this would be it

Almost 20 years after Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Tolkien’s work on the big screen, the Amazon Prime Video platform offered Lord of the Rings fans a new journey through Middle-earth with the series The Rings of Power.

This colossal budget show, whose first season will be broadcast in September 2022, takes place several millennia before the adventures of Frodo and his companions in the Second Age. In particular, we follow the adventures of the elf Galadriel, who is convinced that an evil force is preparing to return to Middle-earth, and the adventures of young Nori Pivelu, who witnesses the sudden arrival of a stranger who fell from the sky.

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Directed in part by Juan Antonio Bayona (also known for the second installment of the Jurassic World trilogy and more recently The Snow Ring), the Amazon series is a marked departure from Peter Jackson’s films, deploying a brighter color palette and often choosing colors. The challenge of a young world.

What if Peter Jackson had directed The Rings of Power?

But what would it be like if he were directed by a New Zealand director? With all kinds of AI exploitation tools now proliferating on the internet, fans asking such questions can now get pretty accurate answers.

That’s how the Youtube channel is called Abandoned moviesUsing Runway, Midjourney, Elevenlabs, After Effects and Premiere Pro software, viewers had fun creating a Peter Jackson-style Rings of Power trailer (see above).

Result ?

A rather impressive and epic sequence of shots, the graphic texture of which actually recalls certain visual elements of the trilogy. Along with the voiceover, the grandiose scenery parades on the screen and the costumed characters of Peter Jackson’s actors.

But even if the effect is amazing, we quickly realize that it is artificial intelligence behind it all, the images are mostly too “clean” and too “smooth” to have been created naturally.

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