After The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 reached its bittersweet end, it’s even clearer that Sauron's (Charlie Vickers) and Celebrimbor's (Charles Edwards) arc follows all the beats required of a psychological thriller. The long-standing genre offers no shortage of duplicitous, harrowing, and shocking cat-and-mouse games from which to draw inspiration. Still, Vickers revealed in a post-finale Vulture interview that Rings of Power showrunners Patrick McKay and J.

D. Paynemodeled Sauron’s manipulative ways after the original, and perhaps the most potent, source of all: the 1944 movie Gaslight. Not only does that title mean exactly what you think it does, but this award-winning film also had more worldwide impact than you might realize.