Amazon Studio Chief Reveals Lengths to Avoid Leaks and Spoilers for The Lord of the Rings TV Series

The Hollywood Reporters recently spoke to Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke, who offered some new details on the production on Amazon’s planned TV series for The Lord of the Rings. According to Salke, Amazon is taking some extreme measures to prevent leaks and spoilers from getting out for the show. Below are some highlights. The upcoming TV series does not have an official release date yet, and it’s still early in production. JD Payne and Patrick McKay are writing the new show.

Salke on the writing for The Lord of the Rings TV show: “They’re already generating really exciting material. They’re down in Santa Monica. You have to go through such clearance, and they have all their windows taped closed. And there’s a security guard that sits outside, and you have to have a fingerprint to get in there, because their whole board is up on a thing of the whole season.”

Salke on working with the Tolkien family and estate for the upcoming series: “We get behind a franchise in a major way. The Tolkiens are coming to New York, all those estate holders. The older ladies, who are now, I think, in their 80s and 90s,” she said. “His daughters and the grandchildren, they’re coming to New York, and Jeff Bezos, me, Jeff Blackburn, a team of us are going and they’ve invited us to a dinner and see [some] creative work that they haven’t shown the world yet.”