The new Lord of the Rings film is a bit of a throwback to the franchise’s pre-Peter Jackson days, with an animated movie that takes place virtually 200 years earlier than the occasions chronicled in Jackson’s Lord of the Rings (and J.R.R. Tolkien’s) trilogy.

Titled The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, the movie options the voices of Brian Cox, Gaia Wise, and Luke Pasqualino and was directed by Kenji Kamiyama. (Jackson is concerned as an government producer.) The Cox’s character is the Helm of Helm’s Deep, and tells a narrative set in that location earlier than it had that identify. (One would assume this specific story explains the way it bought that monicker.)

You can see the full trailer for the movie, which is opening in theaters at the finish of 2024, under:

The Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim Trailer

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Decades earlier than Jackson made his Lord of the Rings films, Rankin and Bass produced a number of animated specials based mostly on Tolkien’s work, together with The Hobbit in 1977 and The Lord of the Rings in 1978. War of the Rohirrim is the first animated movie in Warner Bros.’ Lord of the Rings franchise.

It’s arriving in theaters whereas a live-action Lord of the Rings TV sequence, The Rings of Power, is ongoing on Prime Video. (Warner Bros. has additionally introduced plans for a brand new live-action Lord of the Rings film known as The Hunt for Gollum, which they intend to launch in 2026.)

Here is the movie’s official synopsis:

Set 183 years earlier than the occasions chronicled in the authentic trilogy of movies, “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” tells the destiny of the House of Helm Hammerhand, the legendary King of Rohan. A sudden assault by Wulf, a intelligent and ruthless Dunlending lord searching for vengeance for the loss of life of his father, forces Helm and his individuals to make a daring final stand in the historical stronghold of the Hornburg— a mighty fortress that can later come to be often called Helm’s Deep. Finding herself in an more and more determined scenario, Héra, the daughter of Helm, should summon the will to guide the resistance in opposition to a lethal enemy intent on their complete destruction.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is scheduled to open in theaters on December 13.