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December 17, 2003 - Return of the
Rings!
Check out the great RotK pics now up at the
official site: www.lordoftherings.net
LotR
Stuff
Amazing
Lord of the Rings facts from BBCNews
- Filming took place in New
Zealand.
- Director Peter Jackson took 18
months to film all three adaptations of The Lord of the Rings. You can
expect the second one to hit UK screens next December.
- 1,600 pairs of rubber ears and
feet were used.
- 5,000 cubic metres of
vegetables and flowers were grown a year before the filming started to make
Hobbiton - the village where some of the Hobbits live.
- 250 horses were used. 70 of
these were specially trained, including five miniature horses used for the
hobbits.
- A lot of the sets were carved
out of polystyrene, to make them look like wood which had aged over
thousands of years.
- 64 miniature sets were used to
create places such as the Land of the Dwarves and Knazuddum.
- The character Gollum was
completely computer- generated.
- Over £50,000 of coffee was
drunk by the crew and cast during the 18 months of filming!
- All nine actors who played
hobbits had a tattoo done of the word "Nine" in Elvish to mark the
close bonds they built up during 18 months filming together - though none of
them will allow photos taken of the tattoos!
Just what you've
always wanted, your own Hobbit name (mine's Dimple Sackville-Baggins).
Visit the Hobbit Name Generator here...
Awards
MTV Awards
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best movie TTT 2003
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best on-screen team (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin and
Gollum) TTT 2003
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best action sequence
TTT 2003
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best virtual performance for the digital character
Gollum. TTT 2003
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences (The Oscars)
- Best Sound Editing - TTT 2003
- Best Visual Effects - TTT 2003
- Best Makeup (Peter Owen and Richard Taylor) -
FotR 2002
- Best Cinematography (Andrew Lesnie) -
FotR 2002
- Best Visual Effects (Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook,
Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson) - FotR 2002
- Best Original Musical Score (Howard Shore) -
FotR 2002
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best male actor, supporting role - Ian
McKellen
The Orange British Academy Film Awards
(BAFTA)
- Film of the year - TTT 2003
- Costume design - TTT 2003
- Special visual effects - TTT 2003
- Film - Peter Jackson/Barrie M Osborne/Tim Sanders -
FotR 2002
- The David Lean Award for achievement in Direction -
Peter Jackson -
FotR 2002
- Achievement in Special Visual Effects -
FotR 2002
- Makeup/Hair -
FotR 2002
- The Orange Film Of The Year Award
2002 Empire Awards (UK) - Empire
Magazine
- Best Film
- Best Debut (Orlando Bloom)
- Best Actor (Elijah Wood)
For a complete list please go here
LotR
News
News Release:
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com)
- "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" was the big winner at
the 2003 MTV Movie Awards, which took place at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium
Saturday (May 31) night for air on the basic cable channel Thursday, June 5.
The second installment of Peter Jackson's trilogy adaptation of J.R.R
Tolkien's popular novels took home four of MTV's gilded popcorn awards,
including: best movie, best on-screen team (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin and Gollum),
best action sequence and best virtual performance for the digital character
Gollum.
In fact, Gollum's acceptance speech, previously taped by Andy Serkis, who voiced
and acted out the character for the animators, was the most controversial of the
night. Gollum's split personality took Michael Moore's anti-Bush speeches from
this year's Independent Spirit and Academy Awards to new heights, ending a long
rant against everyone involved in making "The Lord of the Rings" films
with "MTV sucks."
News Release:
A Lord of the Rings musical is going to be appearing on stage in London in
2005. It will be the most expensive production ever, and it's opening will
coincide with the 50th anniversary of the novels' release. More...
News Release:
The Two Towers DVD News!
"April 15, 2003
- Peter Jackson has given Lord of the Rings fans a better idea of what
they can expect when he releases the extended version of The Two Towers
this fall. Buoyed by the success of The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended
Edition, Jackson is adding even more new footage into the special Two
Towers home video/DVD release.
In an interview with the latest edition of the Lord of the Rings Fan Club
Official Movie Magazine, Jackson said that he had completed the final edit
of the extended edition. And while Fellowship had an extra 32 minutes of
footage inserted, he's added an even bigger 43 minutes of new film into the Two
Towers extended edition. That would bring the total minute count to 222 –
an appropriate number!
As with Fellowship, the new material consists of scenes and footage
written into the original script, but left out of the final movie edit for
concerns of time and story clarity. The extended edition should add in many of
the important points from the book that missed making the theatrical release of
the film, including more on Treebeard and the Huorns at Helm's Deep. This report
comes by way of TheOneRing.net.
"I think the thing I am most excited about is the fleshing out and
expansion of the Treebeard/Ent story," Jackson told the Fan Club magazine.
"His story, more than any other single part of the film, was reduced for
the theatrical version. Most of the Treebeard stuff is humorous. We have a great
scene – which I really would have loved to put in the theatrical version –
where he recites really bad poetry to the Hobbits, who are desperately trying
not to fall asleep because that would be rude, and they don't want to be rude.
In addition to the Treebeard material in that storyline, we also have a really
funny sequence with Merry and Pippin and the Ent-draught, which is pretty much
taken right from the book. There are a lot more surprises in that extra Fangorn
material."
Also from TheOneRing.net is an interesting report from Armageddon Expo in
Auckland, New Zealand. Lawrence Makoare, the Kiwi who played Lurtz the Uruk-Hai
captain in Fellowship, also has the part of the Witch-King of Angmar in The
Return of the King. He and Miranda Otto (Eowyn) and presumably Dominic
Monaghan (Merry) will be heading back to the studio in May for Return of the
King reshoots. Apparently, Jackson felt that the Witch-King's armor looked
too much like Sauron's, so his scenes need to be reshot.
Being on the inside, Makoare also has a "very strong hunch" that Peter
Jackson will be making The Hobbit. We know Jackson's next project is a King
Kong remake. Maybe he'll return to Middle-earth when that's over with."
News Release:
Gollum Makes a
Splash
It seems Gollum has topped Amazon.co UK's
poll for top movie fantasy creature. The
second Lord Of The Rings film, The Two Towers - in which Gollum has a major role
- is released on DVD in August.
Top five of the amazon.co.uk poll (in conjunction
with the Internet Movie Database):
1. Gollum (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers);
2. Yoda (Star Wars series);
3. ET (E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial);
4. Shrek (Shrek);
5. Sulley (Monsters, Inc).
News Release: From
Ananova:
"New Zealand officials have secured the
world premiere of the final film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy after agreeing
to refurbish the cinema chosen to host the event.
The December premiere of Return of the King, was
in jeopardy after New Line Cinema warned it would move the event to Los Angeles
if the dilapidated Embassy Theatre in Wellington didn't meet world standards.
A spokesman for the US movie company said:
"We have an expectation that the venue will be of a standard analogous to
the Odeon Leicester Square in London, and the Ziegfield Theater in Manhattan
(where the two previous 'Rings' world premieres were held)."
After dithering about how much it would offer,
the Wellington council agreed to put up around £1.6 million for repairs and
upgrade of the cinema at an emergency meeting.
The capital's mayor, Kerry Prendergast, said:
"We have given our commitment to full refurbishment of the Embassy
Theatre."
Embassy trust chairman Bill Sheat said the work
would begin within weeks, and would be completed by early November.
New Zealand director Peter Jackson has produced
the Lord of the Rings trilogy at his Wellington headquarters. It's the first
time such a large scale production has taken place in the country."
Copyright © 2003 Ananova Ltd
News Release:
Howard Shore has begun his third orchestral
LOTR score. Read more... http://filmforce.ign.com/lotr/articles/395/395204p1.html
Trailer News
No news on a RotK trailor yet.
Sigh...
News Release:
A
selection of Tolkien related articles in The New York Times Archives.
In 1997, The Lord of the Rings trilogy was voted Book of
the Century. Now we are about to experience this inspiring tale of
good and evil brought to life. Filming for a live version of Lord of the Rings has been underway for
more than a
year, and I recently read that the photography is completed, and that the film
is being pieced together.
J.R.R. Tolkien's
The Lord of the
Rings trilogy was shot exclusively in New Zealand over a period of 18
months, with post-production adding another year and a half. At three years
in the making, this is the largest production ever to be mounted in the
Southern Hemisphere.
The film was written by Oscar-nominated screenwriters Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh, with
Philippa Boyens and Stephen Sinclair. The production assembled an international cast, utilized over 20,000 days of extras, employed
a full crew of over 300 and featured 1,200 state-of-the-art
computer generated effects shots.
Peter Jackson's Wellington-based production company, Wingnut Films Limited, in
partnership with the special effects company WETA Limited, have been involved in
developing and designing the Tolkien classic for more than
two years. During this time miniatures, creatures,
prosthetic effects and armor have been created to turn Tolkien's story into a
fabulous film experience.
The
Cast of LotR
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Ian
McKellen (Gandalf)
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Sean
Bean (Boromir)
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Viggo
Mortensen (Aragorn)
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Liv
Tyler (Arwen)
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Ian
Holm (Bilbo Baggins)
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Orlando Bloom (Legolas
Greenleaf)
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Christopher
Lee (Saruman)
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Elijah
Wood (Frodo Baggins)
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Sean
Astin (Sam Gamgee)
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Billy
Boyd (Pippin)
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Cate
Blanchett (Galadriel)
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Martin
Csokas (Celeborn)
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Paul
Sutera (Lotho Sackville-Baggins)
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Andy
Serkis (Gollum)
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David
Wenham (Faramir)
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Brad
Dourif (Grima Wormtongue)
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Dominic
Monaghan (Merry)
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John
Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
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Miranda
Otto (Eowyn)
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Karl
Urban (Eomer)
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Hugo
Weaving (Elrond)
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Bernard
Hill (Theoden
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John
Noble (Denethor)
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John
Leigh (Hama)
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Sarah
MacLeod (Rosie Cotton)
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Bruce
Hopkins (Gamling)
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Stephen
Ure (Gorbag)
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Brian
Sergent (Ted Sandyman)
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Craig
Parker (Haldir)
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An
exclusive pic of Gandalf battling the Balrog - Very Scary
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