New Line Cinema’s authentic anime characteristic The Lord of the Rings: The Battle of the Rohirrim comes from award-winning filmmaker Kenji Kamiyama (Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Ghost within the Shell: Stand Alone Advanced TV sequence).
Screenwriter Philippa Boyens, who wrote Peter Jackson’s live-action movies, stated: “The Lord of the Rings: The Battle of the Rohirrim works for anime as a result of it’s character-driven and contained inside its personal world, two issues that work superbly with Japanese storytelling, and there’s no higher storyteller on this medium than Kenji Kamiyama.”
The remainder of the voice solid contains Brian Cox as Helm Hammerhand the king of Rohan, Gaia Sensible 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 characteristic is being produced by Boyens, from the screenwriting staff 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, based mostly on characters created by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle of the Rohirrim be launched theatrically worldwide by Warner Bros. Footage on December thirteenth, 2024, and internationally starting 11 December 2024.
