

They DID do that Battlefront alike game for LotR. With the Saul Zaentz Company believing it now owns those rights, combined with the excitement caused by Amazon's TV series, it has seemingly decided that now is the time to sell.Īmazon's upcoming TV series, The Rings of Power takes place during the Second Age and has an extensive cast list including Joseph Mawle and Robert Aramayo, and IGN gained an exclusive look behind the scenes of how its title reveal was created. Not sure if the rights to LoTR games would be the same as Star Wars, but I could see some company doing something like EA where they cover multiple games in different genres. In the world of video games, Tolkien’s universe has continued to expand, even in the absence of. The actual owner of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film rights has been the subject of extensive legal action over the years. Amazon’s 2022 Lord of the Rings series will reportedly centre on the rise and fall of Nmenor. maintains some movie rights to The Lord of the Rings through its ownership of New Line Cinema, which produced the live-action film trilogy, but the Saul Zaentz Company believes the rights returned to them in 2021 as Warner Bros.

The sale also includes limited matching rights if the Tolkien Estate, the legal body that manages Tolkien's work, makes movies or other content based on work published after the author's death. Whoever buys the rights to make Lord of the Rings video games or films will have to make their own version of the Middle-earth described in Tolkien’s books, the designs, and characters specific to.
