Lord of the Rings Returns to Animation With War of the Rohirrim, Plus Interviews with the Filmmakers
/Film Daily
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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On the December 13, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson talks a little about The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim and presents interviews with a few of the filmmakers.
In Our Feature Presentation: The War Of The Rohirrim Review: The Lord Of The Rings Goes Anime In Dazzling, But Inessential Prequel
Arty Papageorgiou and Phoebe Gittins
Philippa Boyens
Kenji Kamiyama
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Friday, December 13th, 2024. On today's episode of the show, I'm going to talk a little about the Lord of the Rings, the War of the Roherom, and I'll present several interviews with the filmmakers. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashfilm.com. And without hyperbole, I can say that Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the most impressive feats of cinema that I've ever seen. |
| 0:23.5 | And as pretty much everyone agrees, the Hobbit trilogy, which came out nearly a decade later, was, to be nice about it, not nearly as good. |
| 0:31.1 | For about the next decade, things went dark when it came to Middle Earth adventures on screen. |
| 0:35.2 | But in 2022, Amazon's Lord of the Rings, the Rings of Power, |
| 0:38.6 | debuted. That show has received a somewhat mixed response from fans of J.R.R. Tolkien's books, |
| 0:44.2 | but as I've discussed before, I really like it and think it does a pretty great job of capturing |
| 0:48.4 | the spirit of both Tolkien and the Jackson movies. Now, there is yet another Lord of the Rings |
| 0:54.1 | project to contend with. This one, the Lord of the Rings project to contend with. |
| 0:55.5 | This one, The Lord of the Rings, The War of the Rohirum, is the first anime feature film set in |
| 1:00.3 | the world of Middle Earth. As you might expect, envisioning such a rich world in anime form |
| 1:05.0 | results in some pretty spectacular imagery. But overall, I think the movie falls somewhere |
| 1:09.7 | in between the original trilogy |
| 1:11.3 | and The Hobbit movies. It's based on an extremely short section of one of Tolkien's |
| 1:16.3 | appendices, and while the writers did an admirable job of trying to flesh that out into a |
| 1:20.9 | feature-length story, and despite a massive siege being a big part of the plot, the movie ultimately |
| 1:26.5 | ends up feeling like a smaller scale |
| 1:28.7 | adventure. Our review, which I'll link to in the show notes, calls it dazzling but inessential. |
| 1:33.8 | And while I really like several aspects of this movie, I think that's probably a fair |
| 1:36.9 | assessment. Still, I was excited to speak with several of the filmmakers who brought it to life |
| 1:41.2 | because there's some incredible artistry on display here. A few days ago, I had the chance to talk to a couple of the writers of the movie, |
| 1:47.6 | Artie Papa Gittins, as well as producer and screenwriter Philippa Boyans, who won an Oscar |
| 1:53.1 | for co-writing The Return of the King, and director Kenji Kamiyama. |
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