Lord Of The Rings Anime Movie Producer On The “Dream Come True” Project

Warner Bros. Animation is fast-tracking a Lord of the Rings anime film referred to as The Battle of the Rohirrim, and one of many producers has now spoken about how excited they’re to be engaged on it.

Jason DeMarco, recognized for his work at Cartoon Community, expressed his ardour for The Lord of the Rings throughout a collection of tweets just lately (by way of ComicBook). He mentioned mentioned he is over the moon about having the ability to work on the Lord of the Rings anime with Philippa Boyens and Kenji Kamiyama.

“Anybody who is aware of me is aware of I am a real LOTR nerd. The prospect to inform a Tolkien story with collaborators like Kenji Kamiyama and Philippa Boyens is actually a dream come true. And it is going to be a 2D, theatrical characteristic! Woooooooo,” he mentioned.

Demarco additionally shared a picture of a Helm Hammerhand determine. As introduced beforehand, Hammerhand is without doubt one of the primary characters for the upcoming movie.

What’s extra, Demarco posted photos of an illustrated version of The Hobbit that he says was the inspiration for his love of The Lord of the Rings when he was a child within the sixth grade. “I stole it from the varsity library and browse it 1000x earlier than I even noticed the animated film,” he mentioned, presumably referencing the Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 movie.

Demarco’s tweets obtained a “like” by Frodo actor Elijah Wooden, which Demarco was fairly stoked about.

The standalone film is produced by Joseph Chou (Blade Runner: Black Lotus), whereas Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (The Darkish Crystal: Age of Resistance) wrote the script. As talked about, Philippa Boyens, one of many Oscar-winning writers on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings collection, is connected to the anime as a guide.

Whereas the film is described as a standalone manufacturing, it is also referred to by Warner Bros. as a “companion piece” to Jackson’ The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It would have “story and creative parts” that could be acquainted to followers of Jackson’s collection.

“All of us at New Line really feel a deep affinity for the extraordinary world J.R.R. Tolkien created, so the chance to dive again into Center-earth with the crew at Warner Bros. Animation is a dream come true,” New Line bosses Carolyn Blackwood and Richard Brener mentioned. “Followers know Helm’s Deep because the stage for one of many best battles ever put to movie and, with lots of the similar inventive visionaries concerned and the good Kenji Kamiyama on the helm, we could not be extra excited to ship a contemporary imaginative and prescient of its historical past that can invite international audiences to expertise the wealthy, complicated saga of Center-earth in an exciting new means.”

Warner Bros. says the film is being “fast-tracked” because the studio prepares to launch it in theaters. Sola Leisure is engaged on the animation, whereas voice casting is now underway.

2021 marks the twentieth anniversary of Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring. Amazon is presently producing a big-budget Lord of the Rings TV present, whereas two of the Hobbits from Jackson’s trilogy now have their very own podcast.