To be more specific, the film is not being presented in live-action, but in Japanese Anime-style animation. The Film Is An Anime-Style Prequel To The Original TrilogyĪt the top of this article, we teased that The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim was going to be different from previous installments of the iconic franchise, particularly in the way it look different anything fans of Tolkien have seen yet. Also lending their voices are The Witcher cast member Shaun Dooley, Michael Wildman (whose last film was Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), Jude Akuwudike from Beasts of No Nation, Bilal Hasna from Hulu’s fantasy comedy series, Extraordinary, and veteran actor Janine Duvitski, who is known from movies like About a Boy and Terence Malick’s The New World. Other actors set to star in currently unspecified roles include Bridgerton cast member Lorraine Ashbourne Yazdan Qafouri from Netflix’s British crime thriller, I Came By Benjamin Wainwright (best known for BBC One’s World on Fire) and Laurence Ubong Williams from the 2021 horror film, Gateway).

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim voice cast also features Gaia Wise (of 2015’s A Walk in the Woods fame) as Hammerhand’s daughter, Hera 2013’s Snowpiercer star Luke Pasqualino plays Wulf (a character previously portrayed in Tolkien-inspired video games) and franchise veteran Miranda Otto reprising her role as Éowyn, but as the narrator of the story this time. Because it just - it spans a lot of different emotions. And that kind of resonated with me when we were thinking about the Helm role. And the underlying horror that was in the storytelling. And they talked about the way in which his rage was fueled by this grief.

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