At the 2018 Television Critics Association summer press tour, the head of Amazon Studios, Jennifer Salke, announced the writing team that will help adapt the streaming provider’s Lord of the Rings TV series.
JD Payne and Patrick McKay, writers of the upcoming Star Trek 4 film, will write and develop the hotly anticipated series.
been a very thoughtful process… it’s such a vast world, there are so many different ways to go with that project, and thanks to Sharon Tal Yguado
, she led the charge on bringing so many different people to pitch us… there was a lot of time spent talking about ideas and different takes. We’re very excited to bring Payne and McKay on to move to the next step of this development process,” Salke explained at Amazon’s TCA presentation.
Source: IGN.com Lord of the Rings TV Series Taps Star Trek Writers