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From the Feb 11th Sunday Star TImes:
“A former Lord of The Rings security guard who stole $213,000 worth of costumes and props from the movie set is now selling his own memorabilia of the Tolkien classic.” [More]
The LA Times published a long article on the ineffectual nature of the American Humane Association which is supposed to oversee animal safety on film and TV sets. According to the article, the AHA was not invited to the LOTR set during production and thus won’t give its endorsement of the movies. However, the AHA talked with New Line in January and has laid no complaints. [More]
Months ago some rumours surfaced in the media about the alleged mistreatment of horses during the making of LOTR. It was left to the American Humane Association to prove or disprove the allegations, as concrete evidence seemed very hard to pin down at the time. The LA Times has a long article here on the AHA’s animal-rights work on film sets and LOTR is mentioned:
“More recently, AHA officials waited months to weigh in about persistent reports that horses were abused during the New Zealand filming of “Lord of the Rings,” part of New Line Cinema’s long-anticipated $270-million trilogy. The allegations sparked local news reports and investigations by New Zealand government officials, who found nothing.
Despite receiving dozens of e-mails since October alleging mistreatment on the set of “Lord of the Rings,” AHA officials did not contact or initiate a meeting with New Line executives until mid-January.
Barrett said the AHA is stretched too thin to look into the non-SAG production–among Hollywood’s most expensive projects ever. “We frankly didn’t have the resources to go and beat down the door and try to argue with them about it,” she said.
In a meeting last month, AHA officials “asked questions and we answered all of them,” said New Line spokesman Steve Elzer. “They were more than satisfied with our answers.” Nevertheless, Barrett said that none of the three “Lord of the Ring” films will receive the association’s endorsement, since no AHA monitor was invited to the set.”
This just came in from the band ”Glass Hammer”:
While the composer for the upcoming Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies was chosen months ago, (It’s Canadian Howard Shore) Tolkien fans may still see their favorite group playing a limited role in one of the films. According to the ‘buzz’, certain well-connected ‘lords’ of the sci-fi \ fantasy community are placing Glass Hammer’s music directly in the hands of director Peter Jackson.
Another rumor floating around points to a meeting between Jackson and Glass Hammer writers Babb and Schendel that is to occur later this year. These are only ‘rumors’, and the band will not confirm or deny their validity. Steve Babb of Glass Hammer did give us this much… “Our first connection with Mr. Jackson fell through. However, something has opened up lately; something we weren’t actually expecting.”
In other news, the new album “Live From Middle Earth” is expected to be available sometime this spring.
Get the full story at Glass Hammer
