It’s been a little more than a month since New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment announced that Amazon Prime’s “The Lord of the Rings” series (as well as Netflix’s live-action adaptations of anime Cowboy Bebop and Jeff Lemire‘s comic book Sweet Tooth, among others) had received border exemptions to resume production. Prior to the pandemic shutdown, the high-profile project had nearly completed work on the first two episodes and it was reported that the series is looking to resume filming in September (in accordance with established COVID-19 quarantining regulations), with some preliminary work underway.