A Whole New Story Featurette for ‘LOTR: War of the Rohirrim’ Anime

A Whole New Story Featurette for ‘LOTR: War of the Rohirrim’ Anime

by Alex Billington
November 22, 2024
Source: YouTube

“This approach also allowed new stories to emerge.” Warner Bros has revealed a fresh story featurette for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, exploring the making of this invigorating fresh movie. This LOTR anime is produced by Peter Jackson and made in Japan by anime filmmaker Kenji Kamiyama – watch the first official trailer here. “See Brian Cox embody ‘larger-than-myth’ Helm Hammerhand, King of Rohan, in this behind-the-scenes video.” The promo features a look at the voice actors discussing the story and how it evolved over the course of making this LOTR anime. The full voice cast includes Brian Cox as Helm, Gaia Wise as Hèra, Luke Pasqualino as Wulf, Laurence Ubong Williams as Fréaláf, Shaun Dooley as Freca, Miranda Otto (returning) to narrate as Éowyn. This story focuses on the Helm’s Deep story and how it happened – introduce more characters that haven’t been in any of the other movies. I’m still super excited about this and hope it’s as good as it looks – especially for LOTR geeks like me. Defend Rohan!

“An All New Story” featurette for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, from YouTube:

You can watch the first official trailer for LOTR: The War of the Rohirrim right here for even more footage.

Set 183 years before the events chronicled in the original trilogy of films, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim tells the fate of the House of Helm Hammerhand, the legendary King of Rohan. A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm and his people to make a daring last stand in the archaic stronghold of the Hornburg— a mighty fortress that will later come to be known as Helm’s Deep. Finding herself in an increasingly desperate situation, Héra, the daughter of Helm, must now summon the will to lead the resistance against a deadly enemy intent on their total destruction. LOTR: The War of the Rohirrim is directed by acclaimed Japanese animation filmmaker Kenji Kamiyama, director on Mini Pato, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Eden of the East, 009 Re:Cyborg, “Ultraman”, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, and “The Ninth Jedi” segment of Star Wars: Visions previously. The screenplay is by Jeffrey Addiss & Will Matthews and Phoebe Gittins & Arty Papageorgiou; from a story by Jeffrey Addiss & Will Matthews and Boyens. Based on the beloved J.R.R. Tolkien books & characters of Middle Earth. Produced by Oscar winner Philippa Boyens and Jason DeMarco and Joseph Chou (of Blade Runner: Black Lotus). Warner Bros will debut The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim in theaters worldwide starting December 13th, 2024 at the end of the year. Who’s down?

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