Miranda Otto Working On Upcoming Anime Film 'The War Of The Rohirrim'

TV & Film

May 21

With the original Lord Of The Rings movies came out by Peter Jackson, one of the best in the series was The Two Towers. It really solidified the grand scale and scope that Jackson was trying to portray from the books written by J.R.R Tolkien.

An iconic sequence from the movie is the battle at Helm’s Deep. A stronghold space that the citizens of Rohan used as the final stand against the armies of Sauron. While Tolkien built quite the detailed world of Middle Earth, both scholars and casual fans alike wanted to know more about this castle built into the side of a mountain and walls that cannot break.

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In 2021, while celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first movie in the Rings franchise, Warner Bros studio announced that they were going to be releasing and animated film which told us all about The War Of Rohirrim, which is the battle that built the legend of Helm Hammerhand, the man who become the namesake of the post. In addition to Brian Cox (Succession, Troy and Super Troopers) who is playing King Helm Hammerhand, another actress, Miranda Otto (Annabelle: Creation, The Portable Door), who played Eowyn the niece to King Theoden and eventually killer of the Witch-King of Angmar has let everyone know that she is back to reprise her role.

When speaking with Metro, Miranda was asked to provide narrator duties for movie and was excited to jump back into Middle Earth. “Phillippa (Boyens), one of the writers on the original, rang me and asked if I would be interested in coming back and narrating the animation for this film and I said yes because I thought it would be interesting to return to the character.”

She also gave us a bit of the timeline on her part by saying that she had provided some initial voiceover work and that over the next 6-12 months she is expected to be back in the studio as the film moves along in their animation.

Sola Entertainment has taken on the project which they have said will be hand-drawn anime in the style of the films and a release date right now of April 12, 2024.

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