Pictures Group chief operating officer, and Richard Brener, New Line Cinema president and chief creative officer, said in a statement. Animation is a dream come true,” Carolyn Blackwood, Warner Bros. Tolkien created, so the opportunity to dive back into Middle-earth with the team at Warner Bros. “All of us at New Line feel a deep affinity for the extraordinary world J.R.R.

The six Middle Earth features have grossed over $5.8 billion worldwide for Warner Bros., and it would appear the studio is not content ceding its claim to Tolkien’s creative territory to Amazon. With Amazon’s series looming, New Line and Warner Animation are fast-tracking their feature, with animation at Sola Entertainment and voice casting already underway. That project is set in the Second Age of Middle Earth, millennia before the events of the feature films Helm Hammerhand’s reign, by contrast, unfolded roughly 260 years before the “LOTR” movies. “The War of the Rohirrim” is not, however, connected to Amazon’s gargantuan “Lord of the Rings” series that is deep into production in New Zealand. Philippa Boyens, who won an Oscar for the screenplay for “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” is consulting on the project, which will also draw its aesthetic and narrative inspiration from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. While the filmmaking team is new to the “Lord of the Rings” movie franchise, the project is intended to be connected to director Peter Jackson’s six Middle Earth films based on the books of J.R.R.

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