New Line Cinema’s unique anime function The Lord of the Rings: The Warfare of the Rohirrim comes from award-winning filmmaker Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Ghost within the Shell: Stand Alone Complicated TV sequence).
Screenwriter Philippa Boyens, who wrote Peter Jackson’s live-action movies, stated: “The Lord of the Rings: The Warfare of the Rohirrim works for anime as a result of it’s character-driven and contained inside its personal world, two issues that work fantastically with Japanese storytelling, and there’s no higher storyteller on this medium than Kenji Kamiyama.”
The remainder of the voice forged consists of Brian Cox as Helm Hammerhand the king of Rohan, Gaia Smart as Héra of Rohan, Luke Pasqualino as Wulf, Lorraine Ashbourne (Netflix’s Bridgerton), Yazdan Qafouri (I Got here By), Benjamin Wainwright (BBC One’s World on Hearth), Laurence Ubong Williams (Gateway), Shaun Dooley (Netflix’s The Witcher), Michael Wildman (Quick and Livid Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), Jude Akuwudike (Beasts of No Nation), Bilal Hasna (BBC’s Sparks), and Janine Duvitski (ITV’s Benidorm).
With Kamiyama on the helm, the unique function is being produced by Boyens, from the screenwriting group behind The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Trilogies, alongside Jason DeMarco and Joseph Chou, who, along with their many separate animation initiatives, collaborated on the Blade Runner: Black Lotus sequence.
The chief producers are Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Sam Register, Carolyn Blackwood and Toby Emmerich.
The screenplay is by Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews,Phoebe Gittins, and Arty Papageorgiou, with a narrative by Addiss & Matthews and Boyens, primarily based on characters created by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings: The Warfare of the Rohirrim be launched theatrically worldwide by Warner Bros. Footage on December thirteenth, 2024, and internationally starting 11 December 2024.
