Wayne Che Yip
NEW ZEALAND – March 25, 2021 – Amazon Studios today announced that British 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.
Yip joins the international ensemble cast, currently filming in New Zealand, to direct four episodes. Yip continues on
the work of Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona, who has directed the first two episodes of the series.
Yip is best known for his work directing popular genre content including Hunters, Preacher, Utopia (Channel 4), and Doctor Who and has recently directed episodes of Amazon Studios’ upcoming epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time.
“It is a true honour to be invited into the world of Tolkien by JD, Patrick and Amazon Studios. I am loving working with
the incredible team in New Zealand as we humbly contribute to the legacy of the greatest stories ever told, “ said Wayne
Che Yip.
About the Amazon Original The Lord of the Rings television series:
Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age
of Middle-earth's history. 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. 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 breath-taking 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.
As previously announced, the series is led by showrunners and executive producers J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay; they are joined by executive producers Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin
Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond and Sharon Tal Yguado, co-executive producer Wayne Che Yip, and
producer Christopher Newman.