Calisuri here, Looks like our weekly poll hit the hotspot for the week. Cinescape.com has a report from…
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Looks like our weekly poll hit the hotspot for the week. Cinescape.com has a report from Reuters which says Sean Connery is at the very least interested in “an adaptation of J. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.” The tid-bit goes on to say that Mr. Connery is awaiting a script for his review! All of you who voted for Connery as Gandalf might just be getting your wish!
Here are the poll results from last week:
Tehanus contacts seem to be everywhere these days, just heard PJ raised the bounty another 10 000$
Talked to a friend of a friend (here we go) who gave yet another friend a lift to work through the security courdon. Saw Bilbo’s hole being built out of polystyrene.
msboyd chimed in a couple of days ago with some interesting news, it seems some friends of hers are being looked over for some major characters.
News has come from spies in the theatrical world in London. PJ has been looking around and auditioning some of the bright young talents there, some of them still not yet out of drama school. It looks like we’re going to see fresh faces playing roles like Pippin and Merry.
Xoanon here,
Maybe it’s too early in the morning to think about it, but what is a capping stunt? I’ve emailed Tehanu to ask her, but unfortunately she’s busy teaching the charm of Making to some Ancient ones up in the hills, anyone out there know? anyone?…Here is her report, don’t be afraid if she talks about herself in the 3rd person…just don’t ask.
Tehanu’s description of capping stunts: Over here, students celebrate graduating in a number of ways besides dressing up in a silly cap and gown for the awarding-of-the-degrees ceremony. Apart from drinking lots and putting soap-suds in the civic fountains, there’s also a kind of competition to see who can come up with the funniest and most public hoax or stunt.
Tehanu was a little suspicious about one ‘spy report’ that we received via “ain’t-it-cool-news” a week ago. Supposedly Peter Jackson was going to be filming in the Manawatu, around Palmerston North, and a casting call was being held in The Concourse. Hmmm, sounds like something centring on Massey University, she thought. The photo supplied of the beautiful scenic cow-paddock supposedly resembling ‘The Shire’ looked, shall we say, a little unconvincing.
Calls to the Palmerston Evening Star elicited the response, from various reporters: “Huh?”, “What?” and “It’s probably a capping stunt.” Tehanu’s suspicion was intensified by the fact she had noticed in the previous week’s papers that the Massey University Revue for graduation was going to be based on, or a spoof of, Lord of the Rings. Nice try, guys. You got yourselves on the Web.
Why don’t you send us your best jokes/scripts, and tell us all how it went?
Tehanu has come up with the goods again. She found this site Film NZ News with a few bits about LOTR. (with a little side note from me: Anyone working on this film can E-Mail me anytime you know, just to chat) – Xoanon
LORD OF THE RINGS – PROPOSED SCHEDULE, New Zealand -in brief
“I can’t think of a better country to represent Tolkien’s world of Middle-earth on film,” says Jackson. “From the Shire to Rivendell, the Misty Mountains or Mordor – it’s all here at our doorstep.” .
Location: Wellington, Central Otago (South Island), Central Plateau (North Island).
Studio: Camperdown Studios, Wellington, New Zealand.
Pre Production: February 1999
Principal Photography: September 19th 1999. Filming for 8 weeks, followed by a 2 week break, this will go on for 18 months
Crew numbers
Standard Main Unit
2nd Unit
Action Unit
Small Unit shooting Miniatures
Small Unit shooting Scenics
Largest number of people will be employed in the Computer Effects, Model Making and Set bulding areas.
Effect on the shooting schedules of other projects – Basically Lord of the Rings will have the same affect as two feature films being shot at the same time. There will be crew and facilities available for other projects.
Xoanon Here,
How much would I love to buy my very own black stallion, learn to ride, saddle up, (oh, and move to New Zealand!) and get a job on this film! But alas, I’m a short Italian Canadian who is scared of horse pooh. (not really, but I’m scared of big pooh) This site is looking for genuine talent. Tehanu is already gearing up, heading to those single clubs looking for a horse rider to slide up to and make friends sorry
Auckland, New Zealand .
The Lord of the Rings
This feature film is to start filming in New Zealand later this year. This will require a massive amount of talent resource, for which ModelPool is procuring with a view to submitting to the Producers. It is expected that there will be around 16,000 film extras required all over New Zealand. There will also be a large number of horses and horse riders required to make this film.
