The latest Onfilm magazine in NZ talks a little about The Film Unit which Peter Jackson bought recently…
Continue ReadingThe latest Onfilm magazine in NZ talks a little about The Film Unit which Peter Jackson bought recently and which we’ve mentioned before, but the article describes what the facility offers in detail. Onfilm has paired it up with that nice photo of Peter Jackson and the Prime Minister, taken at the launch party.
One of the people who HAS seen the six-minute reel of The Lord of the Rings footage is Jane Gilbert, of Film New Zealand. She was present at the NZ Consulate-General’s function in Los Angeles where it was screened. According to Onfilm, she said, “It was fantastic and exciting. I haven’t experienced that kind of rush in a cinema for years.”
This from somebody who works round the industry full-time. Mmmm, how many days to go? (Bet we don’t get six minutes.)
For those of you curious to see our Aragorn, Viggo Mortensen, in another role, he’s starring opposite Sandra Bullock in “28 Days.” It opens in the States on the 18th of this month, according to IMDB.
Thanks to Taleena for that snippet.
Hello Tolkienites!!! Gamgee here, with yet another edition of the Tolkien fun section! Our winner yesterday was Juho Savolainen, Way to go Juho!!!!!
The answers were: 1) Galenas 2) dwimmerlaik 3) Ghan-Buri-Ghan
Here are the questions for today:
1) “Who were the Feanturi?”
2) “rcnuunacir” (scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “I had not heard that they spouted smoke from their mouths.” (Who said this?)
As always, email me with your answers, the 1st person to send me all 3 correct answers in one mailing will be posted here tomorrow! Good luck!!!!
One of my favorite sites on the net IMDB has come up with a blip on my LOTR radar.
In their ‘Celebrity News’ we get this:
A $200 million screen version of J.R.R. TOLKIEN’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS is getting enhanced with romance. Director PETER JACKSON, shooting the first of three films devoted to the saga, has drafted LIV TYLER and CATE BLANCHETT to play ARWEN and GALADRIEL, whose roles have been extended in the screenplay. The love story between Arwen and ARAGORN, played by VIGGO MORTENSEN, has also been given greater prominence. But Hobbit fans are up in arms, fearing the essence of the work will be lost.
Enthusiast ALEX HORTON, 17, from Croydon fumes, “I don’t see the point of messing with the elements of a story that has worked so long for lots of people. DR VINCENT GILLESPIE, professor of English at ST ANNE’S COLLEGE, OXFORD says, “Traditionally in Middle English tales men lead the action. It is fairly male-dominated stuff and women have either a domestic or a faerie representing `the other side’… The film could build reasonably, though, on the growing idea that women were powerful ‘fixers’ or ‘peaceweavers’ behind the scenes in these tales.”
Thanks to the leafy Quickbeam for the tip!
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