The Rings of Power season 3 is officially in the works for Prime Video – and filming on the hit Amazon show’s next entry will begin sooner than you think

• Amazon has officially announced that The Rings of Power season 3 is in the works
• The popular high fantasy show’s next entry will start filming in early 2025
• Returning directors Charlotte Brändström and Sanaa Hamri will be joined by Stefan Schwartz on the filmmakers’ roster

The Rings of Power season 3 is officially in development at Amazon MGM Studios – and principal photography is set to begin this spring (that’s autumn for southern hemisphere readers).

In one of the most unsurprising reveals of 2025 so far, Prime Video‘s biggest TV Original is set to deliver more high-fantasy thrills and spills in another installment. The announcement, made today (February 13), confirms that Amazon is moving ahead with a third chapter of its Lord of the Rings prequel series but, truthfully, the show’s renewal has been a foregone conclusion for some time.

Six months have passed since The Rings of Power season 2 debuted on our screens, so some viewers might have started to worry that Prime Video’s most expensive series would become the latest program to be canceled before its time. However, speaking to me ahead of season 2’s launch, showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay told me that they “were already working” on season 3, so I was always convinced it would return.

Admittedly, the work undertaken on The Rings of Power‘s next season didn’t guarantee that one of the best Prime Video shows would be renewed. Nevertheless, the confidence displayed by Payne and McKay during our conversation, coupled with the amount of script work being conducted half a year ago, means another trip to Middle-earth was far more likely than not.