If you’re enthusiastic about Prime Video’s lavish Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV collection, chances are high you’re additionally excited by Warner Bros.’ The War of the Rohirrim anime film, introduced final summer season. Unfortunately, you’ll be ready fairly some time for the horse-lords of Middle-earth to come back trotting onto film screens, because the movie gained’t premiere till April 12, 2024—however not less than we’ve a primary look.

That first look comes from a single piece of idea artwork, seen above, which was made by Weta Workshop and never Sola, the anime studio chargeable for making the movie. I hate to spoil it for you, however it’s a portray of the Rohirrim, at conflict. Specifically, at conflict with the Haradrim, since that’s a Mûmakil smashing by way of the wood partitions of Rohan’s capital Edoras. (Those people who find themselves about to write down a snide remark informing me that is an Oliphaunt, not a Mûmakil, please take it up with the LotR wiki that states solely hobbits name them that.)

You’ll keep in mind the Haradrim as a part of Sauron’s human forces, who fought towards the Rohirrim in Peter Jackson’s Return of the King film. However, The War of the Rohirrim—along with going down just a few hundred years earlier than the occasions of Lord of the Rings—will inform “the untold story behind the fortress of Helm’s Deep,” seen in The Two Towers’ epic battle, and “[delve] into the life and bloodsoaked times of one of Middle-earth’s most legendary figures; the mighty King of Rohan—Helm Hammerhand.”

It’s price noting that this anime movie has completely nothing to do with Prime Video’s upcoming Rings of Power TV collection and might be extra carefully tied to Jackson’s motion pictures, which you may get a visible sense of from the artwork. It’s additionally price noting that Warner Bros. could also be shedding its Lord of the Rings rights very quickly, because the Saul Zaentz Company is reported to be placing the license again available on the market within the close to future. If WB does lose the film rights (which is able to virtually actually be grabbed up by Amazon like Gollum snatching up the Ring), there’s no telling how this may have an effect on The War of the Rohirrim, however it’s in all probability not going to be factor.

If the film does handle to come back out in 2024, it’s going to have been directed by Kinji Kamiyama of Ghost within the Shell: Stand Alone Complex fame. Warner Bros. says it’ll be asserting the film’s “exciting” voice forged quickly, however between the 2024 launch and the license points, “soon” could possibly be a really relative time period.

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