Did Peter Jackson also work on The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim? After the publication of the first official photos of The War of the Rohirrim, the animated film of the Middle-earth saga was officially presented at the Annecy Film Festival and we learned several new features.
Japanese animator and director Kenji Kamiyama made his debut in Annecy in the company of Andy Serkis: the actor, whose career will be forever intertwined with JRR Tolkien’s classic fantasy thanks to his role as Gollum in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit (he will reprise it both in front of and behind the camera in the new film The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, due out in 2026) he is not directly involved in the anime film but he traveled to Annecy to present the film and moderate a panel after the screening.
Precisely during the panel, however, it was confirmed that Peter Jackson will executive produce The Rohirrim War: during the speech, in fact, Kamiyama and Serkis were joined on stage by the Oscar-winning producer Philippa Boyens (the trilogies The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit), by the producer Joseph Chou (TV series Blade Runner: Black Lotus) and by Warner Bros executive Jason Demarco. Kamiyana, whose previous anime credits include Blade Runner: Black Lotus, said he was inspired by both Tolkien’s books and Peter Jackson’s films, describing himself as an avid fan of the latter, and Boyens took the opportunity to announce that the director and Fran Walsh will be executive producers of the animated film. Neither of them was physically present, but Peter Jackson appeared in a short video at the beginning of the event to talk about the project.
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