Amazon Studios today announced that British Chinese director Wayne Che Yip has joined the creative team of its Amazon Original The Lord of the Rings television series as a director and co-executive producer.
This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Yip joins the international ensemble cast, currently filming in New Zealand, to direct four episodes.
He continues the work of Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona, who directed the first two episodes of the series.