By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 13, 2021 4:30 pm EST
Brändström was nominated for an international Emmy for the 2004 TV movie Julie, chevalier de Maupin. But she’s probably best known Stateside for directing episodes of The Witcher, The Man in the High Castle, and Outlander. Most recently, she’s directed episodes of Jupiter’s Legacy. Her experience on The Witcher in particular, for the episodes “Rare Species” and “Bottled Appetites,” should be perfect training for a high-fantasy epic like Lord of the Rings, which is based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal books that set the standard for modern fantasy.
The Lord of the Rings TV series “is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.”
