To coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the release of the first film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Warner Bros today announced the re-release in theaters of the three films directed and remastered in 4K by Peter Jackson starting April 30th. .
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring will be available for a week, between April 30th and May 6th. The next day, May 7, the second volume, “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” will be released, which can be enjoyed until May 13; and the third, “The Return of the King,” from May 14-22.
The series, based on JRR Tolkien’s books, was released in theaters in 2001 and was a critical and public success. The three films have won a total of 17 Oscars, eleven of which for the third installment.
Filming began last year for an ambitious new series for Amazon Studios based on “The Lord of the Rings”, which will take place thousands of years before the events told in that trilogy and in “The Hobbit”, in the “Second Age”. “. De la Tierra Media ”, with JA Bayona as executive producer and director of the first two chapters.