TheOneRing.net can confirm rumors that Ian McKellen (Gandalf) and Elijah Wood (Frodo) plus other cast members are back in New Zealand doing some ADR (Automatic Dialog Replacement) work and some pick up photography for various scenes throughout the films. Contrary to other rumors however, they will most likely NOT be actually shooting any new footage. [More]
Day: April 12, 2001
TheOneRing.net can confirm rumors that Ian McKellen (Gandalf) and Elijah Wood (Frodo) plus other cast members are back in New Zealand doing some ADR (Automatic Dialog Replacement) work and some pick up photography for various scenes throughout the films.
More on ADR or ‘Looping’
ADR stand for “Automated” or “Automatic” Dialog Replacement.
Dialog that cannot be salvaged from production tracks must be re-recorded in a process called looping or ADR.
Looping originally involved recording an actor who spoke lines in sync to “loops” of the image which were played over and over along with matching lengths of recording tape. ADR, though faster, is still painstaking work.
An actor watches the image repeatedly while listening to the original production track on headphones as a guide. The actor then re-performs each line to match the wording and lip movements. Actors vary in their ability to achieve sync and to recapture the emotional tone of their performance.
Marion Brando likes to loop because he doesn’t like to freeze a performance until he knows its final context. (People have said that one reason he mumbles is to make the production sound unusable so that he can make adjustments in looping.)
ADR is usually considered a necessary evil but there are moments when looping can be used not just for technical reasons but to add new character or interpretation to a shot. Just by altering a few key words or phrases an actor can change the emotional bent on a scene.
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Word from Barbarshop: I don’t know if anyone’s reported this yet but our very own Brad Dourif (Wormtongue) is playing (voice) the new evil character on the PC/Mac game Myst III coming out on May, 8 2001. Booooo, hiss!
Ok, so these aren’t creepy facts about the LOTR cast and crew, more like coincidences. But after all, Friday the 13th isn’t supposed to be creepy…just kinda semi-creepy.
3 LOTR Stars in James Bond films
Christopher Lee (Scramanga in ‘The Man With the Golden Gun’)
John Rhys Davies (General Leonid Pushkin in ‘The Living Daylights’)
Sean Bean (006 in ‘Goldeneye’)
Ian Holm/ Ian McKellen
Both named Ian
Both knighted
Both born in England
Total Number of movies from the cast: 954 ( Christopher Lee [Saruman] has been in 22% of them)
Most films by a star: Christopher Lee 215
Least films by a star: 
Orlando Bloom 1
Ian Holm and John-Rhys Davies have the exact same number of movies under thier belts (92)
Ian Holm was in ‘S.O.S Titanic’ as J. Bruce Ismay, 
Bernard Hill was in ‘Titanic’ as Captain Smith. Jonathan Hyde was in ‘Titanic’ playing J. Bruce Ismay, he was also in ‘Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’, Ian Holm was also in a production of ‘Hamlet’
An inordinate amount of LOTR Stars have been in ‘Shortland Street’:
Marton Csokas
John Leigh
Robyn Malcolm
Craig Parker
Mark Ferguson
LOTR Stars in the same movie:
John Noble, Marton Csokas: The Monkey’s Mask Christopher Lee, Marton Csokas: Star Wars: Episode II
Miranda Otto, 
Viggo Mortensen: The Thin Red Line John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee: Journey of Honor
Movies in Which Jim Rygiel (SFX) worked on:
Last Action Hero ( Ian McKellen)
Movies in Which Howard Shore (Composer) worked on:
That Thing You Do! (
Liv Tyler)
Esther Kahn ( Ian Holm)
eXistenZ ( Ian Holm)
Different Native Countries of LOTR Stars:
United States of America
England
Scotland
New Zealand
Germany
Australia
From ‘Massey News’ comes a report that Peter Jackson and longtime companion Frances Walsh are to get honourary PhD’s in Literature. Congrats!
Thanks to Bluebottle for the tip!