In a few hours (Greenwitch time, not counting daylight savings, ugh, my head hurts) it will be October 31, Haloween you say? bah!! Forget that it’s Peter Jackson’s Birthday!!
WAAY back in 1961 our favorite director was born, how do we honor this? By giving him back something he lost not to long ago! (not that)
It is with great pleasure that we announce the grand reopening of The OFFICIAL Peter Jackson Fanclub: The Bastards Have Landed.
In it you’ll find the all the great stuff that was there before, concerning PJ’s past films, his awards, interviews, photographs and all!
And now YOU can become an official BASTARD when you sign up for the fan club!!
Check it out, the old team are still there Reno and Lewman working hard for you! The Fans!
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Buzz our Ringer Spy from Mt Victoria sent us a report. Seems that the weather has been a factor in NZ, he aso talks about some of the SFX (not CGI, but physical effects). Check it all out in The Spy Reports
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Howdy! “Buzz” here…:-)
Well…here I am sitting at my desk in the front window of my Mt Victoria flat, when suddenly at the section of bush up the end of the road there’s all these billowing white clouds coming out of the trees. Very much like the billowing white clouds of, say, a smoke machine. Okay, and now I can see the utility it’s coming from. And suddenly a light has come on through the trees. The smoke seems to have stopped for now, and I can see some people moving around up there. Think I might take a wander and see what I can see. 🙂
Well..I got a couple of hundred metres up the road and it started hosing down with rain. No jacket, so home I came. But I can make out what look like a couple of tents up there, presumably for behind-the-camera purposes. From the way the smoke was released much further down from where the lights are to drift up through the trees, I presume the smoke machine is for mist purposes. Haha….they appear to have had a visit from the fire service. Presumably a concerned local phoning in about billowing clouds of smoke. 🙂
Y’know, I sure hope they want middle-earth to be rainy, because ever since filming started there seems to have been a weirdly disproportionate amount of rain. The first week featured probably some of the worst weather we’d seen in months. 🙂 Small wonder Alan Lee broke his arm….it’s not exactly pedestrian friendly terrain in a lot if places up there.
Thanks to Buzz for the report!
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For those of you who doubt Ethan’s involvement in these films, check this out:
I live in the Chicago area, and one of the most popular morning drive shows is the “Eric and Kathy” show on 101.9 FM. One of my friends, knowing about my interest in this movie project, happened to hear an interview with Ethan Hawke on this show. Ethan said that he was going to be involved in a three-movie project in the near future. He supposedly did not name any roles, but since his name has been bandied around lately regarding the Lord of the Rings project, I thought you might like to know.
Very interesting…Will find out more soon 🙂
Thanks to The Glaze for the tip!
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The cast of LOTR have worked on other films as well, believe it or not. And a few are hitting theatre screens at the moment:
Check out the latest Christopher Lee film ‘Sleepy Hollow’ review. A rather biting review, where Lee’s preformance is considered ‘(he) adds nothing to the film’. Read the review here.
Meanwhile, you can always read the reviews of the latest Cate Blanchett film ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’. This reviewer didn’t like the film either, calling Cate’s preformance as ‘laughable’ (jeez some folks are harsh), check out that review here.
You can always go to the more favorable review of the latest Ethan Hawk film ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’. And this reviewer doesn’t like the film either! oh well, check out the review here.
All these reviews are on Ain’t It Cool News. 🙂
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I can’t understand all the excitement about the locations so far. If you want scenic, check out these links that Tiggy got for us. There’s a map of NZ and a whole lot of stuff about Queenstown, where filming starts next week or so.
Amazing anyone gets any work done down there.
OK, click here or here for pictures of Queenstown, go here or here for pictures from the area, and here for a map showing you where it all is. It’s worth checking out the relief map on that page too.
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