Patrick McKay and JD Payne talk about their love for Tolkien, how difficult it is to understand some of the criticisms of ‘The Rings of Power’, and the future of Sauron.
Patrick McKay and JD Paynecreators of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’, They speak for the first time about how difficult it is to understand some criticism of their series, especially if it is done arguing about the supposed legacy of JRR Tolkien and, incidentally, confess what they learned in this first season while preparing the second and the imminent return of Sauron on Amazon Prime Video.
“The hardest thing to listen to is when it’s talked about, from a cynical point of view, that this is money theft,” says McKay in a lengthy interview published in The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s the opposite! This is a totally sincere production. It’s not a paid job for anyone. It’s a labor of love“.
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Season 2, bigger and better
The duo, who have been together since they met in high school, worked on Bad Robot together, developing different scripts and projects. “We had reached a breaking point, we had been writing films that should have been made for ten years,” says McKay. “Movies where the director was right, the cast was right, the script was right, the title was right and it was great IP, but they didn’t happen. So we thought maybe we should try this tv thing“It was the moment when they embarked on one of 20 fantastic series that they want to be the new ‘Game of Thrones’.
“That could be an answer that would take an hour,” McKay says of what they’ve learned in creating the first season that they can apply to the next. “The whole making of this series has been a huge learning experience for everyone involved. We had no idea what we were getting into. No one else knew either,” she confesses before adding that season 2 will be “bigger and better” on “every level”. Let’s hope we don’t have to complete our ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ map too much.
“One of the biggest things we learned was that even when it’s a small scene, it’s always must be related to the general objectives“says Payne, focused on achieving one of the 15 best fantasy series to escape from reality.
“There are things that didn’t work very well in the first season that could have worked in a smaller series,” agrees McKay. “It has to be about good and evil and the fate of the world or it doesn’t have that epic feel that you want when you’re in Tolkien’s world.“.
Racist haters, hurrarrum!
“The spirit of Tolkien speaks to us of disparate peoples who do not trust each other and who seem different from each other but who find common ground in friendship and achieve great things.“, Payne points out about the hate speech of the most despicable sector of society. “That is the spirit that we have tried to instill in every comma and period of the series. That this aspiration is offensive to people and makes them angry… it is very difficult for us to understand. What are they protecting? I don’t see how people who say these things think they’re fighting for the good.”
“There’s a line in episode seven where Galadriel says that all war is fought from without and from within. Even if you’re fighting for something you think is good, if you do something worse in that fight, then you become evil.” “, remember. “I don’t see how people who say these things think they are fighting for the good. It’s clearly evil.” No, there were no black elves in Middle-earth. So what?
The Sauron Show
Who is Adar in ‘The Rings of Power’? Is it Sauron? We ask ourselves and all the followers of the title. “It was very tempting to make the first season of this series ‘The Sauron series’, very villain-centric,” McKay says of his antagonist. “But we wanted that level of evil and complexity of evil to come out of a world that you’re involved in, not because evil is immediately threatening it. We wanted you to fall in love with Middle-earth all over again. We wanted you to understand and relate to the struggles each of these characters are having before we put them to the test in a way they’ve never been before.“.
“It’s another element of Tolkien, when a shadow falls – which is part of what happens in our series – it affects everyone’s relationships,” says Payne. “Even Frodo and Sam. They are the best friends in all of Middle Earth but they begin to distrust each other because it is a manifestation of that shadow.. So to make the public suspect that this or that person could be Sauron is to drag them into that shadow that surpasses us all and makes us suspicious of each other.
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