Scoop has kindly allowed to use this latest posting of theirs.
Article: Alastair Thompson
Date: Monday, 11 October 1999
Time: 11:11 am NZT
Scoop visits Peter Jackson’s Camperdown studios: Welcome To Camperdown
An Unlikely Looking HQ For A $300 Million Film?
In north Miramar hard up under Mt Crawford an old “Mel-o-rich” milkshake powder factory is home to New Zealand’s largest ever cultural investment – the Lord of the Rings trilogy being filmed over the next 18 months under the direction of Peter Jackson. See also… “The Lord Of The Rings” To Begin Photography In NZ
A couple of weeks ago, on a Sunday, Scoop scouted out Camperdown Studios – on the corner or Camperdown and Weka Sts – HQ to Peter Jackson’s massive film project.
Camperdown was not – yet anyway – the hive of activity one might expect it to be. No limousines nor anyone vaguely famous was spotted. Admittedly it was a Sunday.
The site appeared to be completely covered in low barracks like buildings with various industrial milk handling apparatus attached. There are also lots of signs referring those interested in talking to Weka digital to a relatively new looking office block at the rear of the site.
Out front was a rusty bus, out rear a triumph sports convertible. The kids were kind of disappointed there were no milk-shakes.
View the images and complete article at The Scoop website at http://www.scoop.co.nz/
This Story is at http://www.scoop.co.nz/frames/stories/HL9910/S00046.htm
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At least in NZ, it’s 4:41 am, Monday October 11 Down there. As you all know filming is set to start today. And I’m filled with giddy childlike excitement along with the rest of you!
What will happen in the course of these 18 months? Will there be problems on the set? Will the media turn its collective back and start calling this project ‘ill fated’? Will production run over budget? Or hopefully, will production move along at an incredible pace? Will there be such harmony on the set that filming ‘The Hobbit’ will not only be an eventuality, but a reality?
This is now the time when all details move from LA, NY, and the UK to New Zealand. All sound bites, interviews, photos and news bits will eventualy be coming from there. That is why we added a little ‘weather updater’, for those of us who aren’t from NZ, it’ll at least make you have some sense of ‘being’ there.
This is now the time for our NZ friends to come into action. With production starting, the ‘cat’ will be out of the bag, so to speak, somewhere someone is going to see something, and we here at TheOneRing.net want to know about it. Send it along in an email, if you come up with the goods on a regular basis, we’ll give you free access to post any of your news in our Spy Reports.
So here we go, 18 months of filming, almost the same amount of time editing. TheOneRing.net is in it for the long haul (I’ve got a comfy computer chair) I hope you all enjoy the expierence.
Xoanon & TheOneRing.net Team
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Ringer Spy Sadogoat sent in this pic of Kevin ‘Theoden’ Conway. Thanks!
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This comes by way of our Russan Counterparts, it’s an interview with EW done by none other that Brooke Shields for an upcoming film ‘Black and White’.
Interview With Elijah Wood
by Brooke Shields
BS: Let’s talk about the movie we did together, Black and White. Had you done a totally improvisational film before?
EW: No. And as interesting as the project seemed, I was really scared because it was so far away from anything I’d done. Then I came to the conclusion that if you’re ever fearful of taking a step forward to a place that could be better for you, you should always take it, because that’s the only way you’ll ever grow. So despite how afraid I was, I made the decision to continue.
BS: Well, fear is an incredible motivator. OK, now you can talk about kissing me. [laughs]
EW: That was an absolutely lovely day! I came to the set thinking I was filming one thing, and one of the assistant directors came to my trailer and said, “You’ve got to kiss Brooke Shields in the park today.” I was like, “I’m sorry. Run that by me again?” [BS laughs] What a great experience! I already felt very close to you, and that brought us a bit closer.
BS: The feeling was mutual. Still, I was thinking, I should be arrested for this! And you kept saying that it was legal in some states! [laughs] So I didn’t fell so bad. So next you’re doing “The Lord of the Rings.” Have you read the trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien?
EW: No, but I read “The Hobbit.”
BS: Did they suggest you read all three books?
EW: It wasn’t necessary, although I believe they’re under the impression that I have read all three. But I don’t think it really matters. The script are brilliant, and they’ve kept the tone of Tolkien’s writing, which is wonderful.
BS: How would you describe a hobbit?
EW: A hobbit is a very short, amusing character. They don’t wear shoes. They have hairy feet and pointy little ears. My character, Frodo Baggins, has a wry sense of humor.
BS: You were perfectly typecast.
EW: [laughs] How perceptive!
BS: I did kiss you, remember? I was given these Tolkien stories when I was a child. They should be required reading at an older age, just because of the lessons in them.
EW: Oh, definitely. The stories reveal the darkness of the human spirit, and where that can go, as well as extreme light.
BS: You’ll be shooting in New Zealand, right? Will you be there for a long time?
EW: Fourteen months, because we’re doing three movies. It’s going to be an adventure, a real journey. And I think that I’ll be different when I come back, as a person and an actor, and I look forward to that.
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