It’s set before The Fellowship of the Ring
It’ll be the most expensive TV series ever made
There’s going to be at least five seasons
Most TV series are developed as a pilot episode, and then as a full season if the pilot gets picked up. Multiple seasons aren’t usually planned until well into the run when the network starts to ask the showrunners what the endgame is (this happened with Lost during season 3 and meant that the writers could plan up to season 6’s ending).
It might have spin-offs
Back in the days of Joey and The Cleveland Show and After MAS*H, TV spin-offs were thought to be an unworkable idea. A spin-off show that was actually successful, like Frasier, was a diamond in the rough.
J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have been hired as showrunners
They were hired to write the fourth movie in the Star Trek Kelvin Timeline series for Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto before it was canned, and they also wrote an early draft of the Flash Gordon reboot that has now been taken over by Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi, who will finally “crack” the reboot by helming it as an animated film.
The show has assembled a “Fellowship” full of talent
Showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay wrote of their team: “This team is our Fellowship – assembled from around the world, all walking the road together to try and accomplish something far greater than any of us could on our own. We feel humbled and extremely lucky to be surrounded by such inspiring and talented women and men.”
J.A. Bayona will direct the first two episodes
The movie had some serious structural problems, cramming two movies into one and condensing each one to the length of half a movie, and also dumb storylines like the cloned girl who releases dinosaurs into civilized society because she felt a kindred spirit with them – but that was the script’s problem, not Bayona’s.
