‘The Lord of the Rings’ anime film within the works
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WASHINGTON: New Line Cinema, the studio behind the Oscar-winning ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and ‘The Hobbit’, is teaming up with Warner Bros. Animation for the unique anime film ‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’.
As per Variety, veteran anime filmmaker Kenji Kamiyama, who helmed Netflix’s ‘Ultraman’ anime sequence, will direct the movie from a screenplay by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews. Joseph Chou is producing the upcoming venture.
The stand-alone characteristic will depict the bloody saga behind Helm’s Deep, the fortress depicted in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’, and the person in whose honour it is named: Helm Hammerhand, the legendary King of Rohan who spent a lot of his reign locked in a chronic and expensive battle.
While the filmmaking staff is new to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ film franchise, the venture is meant to be linked to director Peter Jackson’s six Middle Earth movies based mostly on the books of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Philippa Boyens, who gained an Oscar for the screenplay for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’, is consulting on the venture, which may even draw its aesthetic and narrative inspiration from the ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy.
‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ shouldn’t be, nonetheless, linked to Amazon’s gargantuan ‘The Lord of the Rings’ sequence that’s deep into manufacturing in New Zealand. That venture is about within the Second Age of Middle Earth, millennia earlier than the occasions of the characteristic movies; Helm Hammerhand’s reign, against this, unfolded roughly 260 years earlier than the ‘LOTR’ films.
With Amazon’s sequence looming, New Line and Warner Animation are fast-tracking their characteristic, with animation at Sola Entertainment and voice casting already underway. The six Middle Earth options have grossed over USD 5.8 billion worldwide for Warner Bros., and it will seem the studio shouldn’t be content material ceding its declare to Tolkien’s artistic territory to Amazon.
Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute the venture worldwide.
