Wellington city councillors agreed unanimously at an emergency meeting today to underwrite the cost of refurbishing the Embassy theatre to the tune of $4.5 million. This decision should enable Wellington to hold on to the world premiere of the third Lord of the Rings movie, Return Of the King, in December.
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Day: May 6, 2003
The Coming Soon website has a quote from Ian McKellen that may or may not give away some major spoilers concerning Saruman’s role in The Return of the King. Warning: Spoilers! Highlight text below to read:
“Someone then said they enjoyed the fight scene with Saruman in the first film, and asked if we would see something similar in the third film, Return of the King. Sir Ian replied in the negative, saying that originally Saruman was to have died at the end of the second film but that this would now be the introduction to the third film. ‘He falls from a great height and comes to a sticky end’, he revealed, before going on to say ‘Peter Jackson is a huge horror film fan. That’s why he cast Christopher Lee – who better to play Saruman than the biggest horror villain? Knowing that and Peter’s great love for horror movies, it’s inconceivable that Dracula wouldn’t play some part in Saruman’s death’.”
Hmmm…confirmation of the Spikey Wheel after all? We’re keeping our grains of salt handy.
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Demosthenes here. I just wanted to point out that this originally came from Ringer Spy Irascian’s An Audience with Ian McKellen report that we posted up a couple of days ago. Well worth a read, if you missed it originally.
The goodies just keep rolling in at the Noble Collection. A recent check of their site revealed a host of new items including a gorgeous replica of Gandalf’s Two Towers cloak pin, the Elvish ring Narya, a 14-karat gold version of Eowyn’s flower pendant, and a full-sized replica of Gandalf the Grey’s staff! If these pricey goodies are beyond your pocketbook, they also offer Glamdring, Sting, and Narsil letter openers for under $30 each. Thanks to TORN staffer maegwen! [More]
May 9th is the official pre-order date for The Two Towers theatrical DVD, with orders actually shipping around Aug 26th.This coming Friday, we will be posting a complete list of online vendors who are pre-selling the DVD and VHS. Stay Tuned!
Another report from Collectormania, everyone seems to have been there except for me. This one is from a person who got to spend two days sitting next to John Rhys-Davies! I can imagine worse ways of spending time…
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Shelagh sends along this little snippet from an interview with Ian McKellen (Gandalf). During the interview, McKellen was asked about Michael Gambon playing Dumbledore, and if he has any advice for the Irishman. “I do not think that I could give advice to Sir Mike on anything; he will be very good. I hear that he took a very long time to negotiate his fee for playing Dumbledore so he must know what he is doing….”. [More]