Warner Bros. Animation, New Line Cinema, and Sola Entertainment confirmed at the Annecy Animation Festival on Tuesday that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are serving as executive producers on The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, the new feature film by Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Eden of the East).
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is set in the world of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.
The film is described as an original anime feature, depicting “a legendary battle that helped shape Middle-earth and set the stage” for Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
The film’s story draws inspiration from and expands upon a brief section of J.R.R. Tolkien’s appendices to The Lord of the Rings.