Despite its two-week suspension declaration, the memo also contains the caveat that “there are no clear answers to when we will resume production.”
The cast and crew have been urged to “not report to the set or to the studio without the express permission of your supervisor.” Indeed, the halting of production will not only keep them safe and stem the possibility of spreading the virus in its 10-day symptom dormancy, but also ease the impact that the production would have on “the resources and infrastructures around us by doing our part to reduce population density in our communities and daily activities, in efforts to help reduce the spread of the virus.”
The series, manifesting under the creative purview of showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, has a cast consisting of Markella Kavenagh, Robert Aramayo, Ema Horvath, Maxim Baldry, Joseph Mawle and Morfydd Clark, who’s confirmed to play a younger (thousands of years younger,) version of Galadriel, the elven Lady of Lothlorien, who was famously played by Cate Blanchett in 2001-2003’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and reprised a decade later in 2012-2014’s The Hobbit films. It seems that the cameras have been rolling for some time, with the memo confirming the show’s status before the production halt, stating, “We were well into shooting. Everybody was in place so there weren’t many people coming from overseas recently.”
