The brand new Lord of the Rings film is a little bit of a throwback to the franchise’s pre-Peter Jackson days, with an animated movie that takes place virtually 200 years earlier than the occasions chronicled in Jackson’s Lord of the Rings (and J.R.R. Tolkien’s) trilogy.
Titled The Lord of the Rings: The Struggle of the Rohirrim, the movie options the voices of Brian Cox, Gaia Clever, and Luke Pasqualino and was directed by Kenji Kamiyama. (Jackson is concerned as an government producer.) The Cox’s character is the Helm of Helm’s Deep, and tells a narrative set in that location earlier than it had that identify. (One would assume this explicit story explains the way it received that monicker.)
You’ll be able to see the total trailer for the movie, which is opening in theaters on the finish of 2024, beneath:
The Lord of the Rings: The Struggle of Rohirrim Trailer
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Many years earlier than Jackson made his Lord of the Rings motion pictures, Rankin and Bass produced a number of animated specials based mostly on Tolkien’s work, together with The Hobbit in 1977 and The Lord of the Rings in 1978. Struggle of the Rohirrim is the primary animated movie in Warner Bros.’ Lord of the Rings franchise.
It’s arriving in theaters whereas a live-action Lord of the Rings TV sequence, The Rings of Energy, is ongoing on Prime Video. (Warner Bros. has additionally introduced plans for a brand new live-action Lord of the Rings film known as The Hunt for Gollum, which they intend to launch in 2026.)
Right here is the movie’s official synopsis:
Set 183 years earlier than the occasions chronicled within the unique trilogy of movies, “The Lord of the Rings: The Struggle of the Rohirrim” tells the destiny of the Home of Helm Hammerhand, the legendary King of Rohan. A sudden assault by Wulf, a intelligent and ruthless Dunlending lord in search of vengeance for the demise of his father, forces Helm and his folks to make a daring final stand within the historical stronghold of the Hornburg— a mighty fortress that can later come to be referred to as Helm’s Deep. Discovering herself in an more and more determined scenario, Héra, the daughter of Helm, should summon the need to steer the resistance in opposition to a lethal enemy intent on their whole destruction.
The Lord of the Rings: The Struggle of the Rohirrim is scheduled to open in theaters on December 13.
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