No offence to Wellington, but wait til we see the stuff they’re filming in the South Island! Now, THAT’s Middle-earth! (Tehanu drools in anticipation, as she scrubs down her hiking boots, fluffs up her tramping socks and polishes her telephoto lens…)
Day: November 4, 1999
Super Ringer Spy Xtem has come across some amazing pics from the set of Bree as well as this quarry we’re all hearing about! Take a look at these amazing exclusive pics!
!!WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD!!
Check it out in The Spy Reports
-More to come!
Hey, Xoanon here under the name of Dwane, but it’s the big X here.
How excited am I see see these films? My excitement is reaching a fever pitch, and it’s not even a month into filming!!
These pics given to me from Super Ringer Spy Xtem givem me more slobbering time at my monitor. From what he tells me, this is the ‘Quarry’ everyone is talking about. And the other 2 are from the Bree set.
I cannot even begin to imagine hoe beautiful the landscape in New Zealand is. Every picture I see blows me away. It truly is Middle-earth.
Here they are, enjoy!!
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Well, today I recieved an email from ringer Ron Bublitz. He mentioned he had an animated short he’s been working on for 6 months and involved the final scene with Gollum at Mt. Doom.
Just FYI, TheOneRing.net is developing a multimedia section for such submissions, but this couldn’t wait!
You can tell Ron worked very hard on this file! If you want to see some great 3d animation click on the below link. Its a 6.6 Meg file, so might take a while. But its well worth it!
Gollum.mov – 6.6 MEG
Great work Ron!
Ian sends his report on the arrival of the crew to the South Island. And some clues to where they are filming. Check it all out in The Spy Reports
Wellington, Nov 4 – Most of The Lord Of The Rings film’s 400-450 cast and crew are to wrap up filming in the Wellington area next week and will move to Queenstown for a month. Filming of the $360 million project would resume in Wellington in mid-January, publicist Claire Raskind said today.
“More dynamic exterior scenes” would be filmed around Queenstown, Wanaka, and Te Anau. Of the $360 million being spent making three films, about 75 percent was being spent in New Zealand, Ms Raskind said. Cast and crew in Wellington had spent $20,000 on coffee alone to date.
Filming on the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy began in the Town Belt on Mt Victoria last month. Filming has also taken place at night at Fort Dorset, and from Thursday to Saturday last week at Harcourt Park in Upper Hutt. About 300 people watched filming at the park, even while it was raining, Ms Raskind said. “People came from their homes with their families. They were great.
There was some yellow tape that was put up and nobody tried to break the barrier. Everyone was considerate and polite. As we got into the wee hours people started fading. By 3am there were five die hard fans” she said. There would be a break in filming of about four weeks around Christmas and New Year, Ms Raskind said.
“We are shooting for such a long time obviously we want to make sure we give people the proper rest.”
Some of the locations around Queenstown and the southern lakes resulted from suggestions from the public, Ms Raskind said. Mr Jackson appealed on TV earlier this year to people in the area to send him suggestions. Filming would also take place around the southern lakes next year.
(C) 1999 New Zealand Press Association.
NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION 04/11/1999
Thanks to Super Ringer Spy Daniel for this article and the next!