‘Lord Of The Rings’ TV Series Writers’ Room Taking Secrecy To The Next Level With Guards, Fingerprint Scans And Blocked Windows
By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 20, 2019 8:30 am EST
I get wanting to avoid spoilers from leaking, but this seems a bit extremed (and also sounds like a major fire hazard). Then again, the Lord of the Rings TV series is rumored to be telling brand new stories we’ve never heard before, so while we all may know the general gist of what happens, we’re completely in the dark regarding where the series is going.
“There’s a fantastic writers room working under lock and key. They’re already generating really exciting material. They’re down in Santa Monica. You have to go through such clearance, and they have all their windows taped closed. And there’s a security guard that sits outside, and you have to have a fingerprint to get in there, because their whole board is up on a thing of the whole season.”
This uber-secrecy is becoming par for the course for major intellectual properties like this. For example: while making Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director J.J. Abrams had Adam Driver shoot scenes wearing an X-Wing pilot uniform, even though by now we all know he doesn’t play an X-Wing pilot in the franchise. This was a bit of misdirection on Abrams’ part, to throw off the scent of those sniffing out a scoop. And while shooting the upcoming final season of Game of Thrones, HBO employed “drone killers” to literally shoot drone cameras out of the sky, in case anyone was trying to use them to spy on the set.
