Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.On TV and in film, series prequels continue to be very much in vogue. Whether touting prehistories of Star Wars, Dune or Game of Thrones, these spin-offs may bear little resemblance to the beloved originals. But it suffices to carry a familiar franchise title and declare that the action takes place a few centuries or millennia before the main saga, and you can count on attracting a loyal, curious audience.Following Amazon\u2019s series The Rings of Power, here is a new Tolkien derivative: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, a lumbering anime directed by Kenji Kamiyama. Narratively, it bears tenuous relation to Peter Jackson\u2019s phenomenally successful Middle Earth cycle \u2014 apart from a couple of outrageously knowing winks in the coda, which briefly samples the voice of a revered Lord of the Rings actor. But the film bears the legend \u201cPeter Jackson presents\u201d (he is executive producer), which should in itself do the trick at the box office.To non-initiates, The War of the Rohirrim may sound like a face-off between competitive throat-clearing teams; in fact, we\u2019re dealing with the people of Rohan, led by Odin-like chieftain Helm Hammerhand (voiced by Brian Cox), a booming bruiser whose ire starts a war with a rival clan. Besieged in a mountain fortress, Helm\u2019s people would face certain doom, if not for Helm\u2019s young daughter H\u00e9ra, who we are told is a \u201cwild . . . headstrong . . . tearaway child\u201d (or, as the ancient chronicles would surely have it, \u201ckicke-asse\u201d).The characters, executed in clean-lined 2D, are lifeless, oddly stiff in their movements. H\u00e9ra\u2019s face has the generic flat, big-eyed anime look, not rendered much more expressive by Gaia Wise\u2019s voice performance, with its impassive posh-girl monotone. The backgrounds, at least, are worth looking at. They have the imposing sweep of highly textured video-game art, with a strong flavour of northern European\/Asian cross-pollination \u2014 a touch of Celtic Kurosawa.\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606In cinemas from December 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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