Xoanon here, I’ve been keeping track of this stage play for some months. It’s great to finally see some promo work! If anyone involved with this play are reading, drop me a line!
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From: Vdude
I was in a local bookstore (The Stars Our Destination) when I picked up this pamphlet:
“Lifeline Theaters presents J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers Adapted by James Sie& Karen Tarjan Directed by Ned Mochel”
“Many years ago, the Dark Lord created a ring of incredible power, a ring to rule all other rings of power. And then the ring was lost…Frodo and Sam-lowly hobbits-must destroy the ring by casting it into the fire from whence it came. They must journey to the Dark Kingdom where evil Sauron, in the great tower, is supreme. Their guide is Gollum, deceitful and lust-filled slave to the corruption of the ring. The fantastic and horrible awaits them, from evil orcs to a gigantic spider named Shelob. Meanwhile, Frodo’s companions: Legolas, Gimli; Aragorn-and Gandalf from the council of Wizards-are caught in the strategy of the traitor Saruman, whose fortress must be overcome. Don’t miss the mastery of Tolkien’s The Two Towers, Book 2 of the greatest epic fantasy ever written, brought to life on the Lifeline stage Order now…our production of The Fellowship of the Ring sold out”
The play is scheduled to run between January 22 and May 7, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3:30pm. More information can be obtained at www.lifelinetheatre.com
I spoke to the store proprietors, who had seen the production of FoTR two years previously. They said it was a good adaptation, though it only provided a sampling of the book rather than the entire story.
Ringer Spy Wasp sends in something that many people may have missed:
The IMDB updates constantly, of course, and there’s some new information concerning the crew of LotR. Ever since the crew list was released there’s been some speculation as to who will edit the film, which is a fairly important job. Some suggested that PJ might be editing it himself. According to the IMDB, the editors for Fellowship of the Ring are John Gilbert IX (Crush, Jack Be Nimble, The Frighteners, more)and LotR Post-Production Supervisor Jamie Selkirk
Eddie is bemused about Blacklisting By Peta Woodhouse
Quotes from ‘Contact’ newspaper, 20th January 2000
Former Lord of The Rings movie extra Eddie McCarthy does not feel bitter about being blacklisted by Wellington acting agencies after spilling “secrets” about the making of the film. He just finds it laughable.
The rest of the article goes on to describe Eddie (Hobbitknocker) McCarthy’s first article published in ‘Contact’, and how 3Foot6 reacted. They issued him a threatening letter.
When Contact tried to, er, contact 3Foot6 or Wingnut films, they discovered the phone number has changed. McCarthy, meanwhile is apathetic:
“It’s hysterical because it’s so ludicrous. How can they threaten a 68-year-old amateur actor [with no more work] when I just do this sort of thing for the love of it. I don’t gtive a damn about it. I’ve been there and done my thing. I’ve sung in music shows in the 60s before Avalon Studios were built.”
When McCarthy tried to call his agency ‘Trio Talent Management’ for more work they told him ‘You should basically consider yourself blacklisted’.
At the suggestion of our friends at TheForce.net, TheOneRing.netª is proud to announce our affiliation with IGN.com, the internet’s premiere entertainment website.
What does this mean for TheOneRing.netª? You will notice just a few physical changes to the site. We will now carry the IGN logo with its link to their larger world of entertainment-related sites. There will be a wider variety of ad banners, on our main site that will open your eyes to many new science-fiction and fantasy related sites. What about the small business ads? Well, we will still be carrying very low cost or free ads for Tolkien-related small businesses in our sister sites like Gaming Havens, Green Books, Fan.TheOneRing.netª, etc. Last but not least, don’t worry! We won’t be changing our web URL or anything drastic like that. TheOneRing.netª will still be hosting on our server and will still be run by the same group of 20+ volunteers.
With our partnership with IGN, TheOneRing.netª realizes it is likely that expenses will be more than covered. We don’t intend that personal profit will now become our main objective, and we have investigated a number of charitable causes which we will support. TheOneRing.netª is proud to announce that we are in talks to become co-sponsors of an online environmental education program for schools which is run by the Worldwide Fund for Nature. We also will be supporting an educational program in NZ called Books in Homes, a scheme which is doing a great deal to ensure that coming generations will continue to read and feel as comfortable with books as we are; it is our hope that many children will discover the magic of some of the books we have loved and learned from.
We are VERY excited for this opportunity to support these various charities. More information on these charities and more will become available as plans are finalized. We would like to thank IGN helping us to be able to help others.
This week I have been going to a summer program at the Australian FIlm Television and Radio School, during the week lecturers in many different fields have been talking to us.
One of the men was a man from an Australian digital fx company called ‘Animal Logic’ (www.animallogic.com), he was showing us some of his work (matrix etc) and during his lecture he told us how they use digital effects in films to create larger armies than there actually are.
Animal Logic spoke about the ‘Massive’ technology, however they are not working on LOTR. However he showed us how to create large amounts of people for battle scenes. He has done ads such as the KFC ad where all the KFC employees are watching the huge screen with Star Wars images. He has also done the Maytag ads where the parents vs the kids on a field over what is for dinner.
How he did it was take about 50 or so extras and film them doing the actions at certain places on the field. They filmed the extras using all the different camera angles the ad would require and they created a system by which the camera could pan without effecting the end effect as normally the camera had to be steady to do this sort of effect. What they then did was use the existing images of people to fill in the rest of the gaps on the field. Once all together with camera pans etc it really looks like there are thousands of people.
As I said he is not working on LOTR but this is a good example of how WETA will probably create large hordes of Orcs.
For more on this and other computer related magic check out our SFX section.
Aint it cool news is reporting that Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) has denied the rumors that she will be replacing Jodie Foster in the ‘Silence of the Lambs’ sequel.
To this Cate replied “rumor, rumor, rumor” and then elaborated on this with praise of Jodie and saying Jodie was “irreplacable.” [More]
