The good folks at Mithril have chimed in with the latest news from the land of miniatures. [More]
Month: May 2000
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The latest issue of Cinescape Magazine features our very own Ian McKellen (Gandalf) in the ‘Star of the Future’ section. The one page article talks mostly about McKellen’s foray into the world of Magneto in the upcomming ‘X-Men’ film. However there is a small blurb about LOTR:
So after his detour to Fantsayland via X-Men, was McKellen eager to get back to the Bard? Not at all. Even before he was finished working on X-Men, he was preparing for his next foray into fantasy filmmaking. “Once I felt on top of the problems of playing Magneto, I started examining the Lord of the Rings scripts,” writes McKellen, who will play the wizard Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the classic trilogy, “usually at weekends so that I wasn’t to distracted from the X-Men x-perience.”
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New Line closes Rings distribution circle
Mike Goodridge, from screendaily.com in Cannes
New Line International has slotted the final key pieces into the worldwide distribution structure on its ambitious $300m Lord Of the Rings trilogy currently shooting in New Zealand. The Time Warner owned studio is now rallying its partners for a massive coordinated promotional and merchandising blitz for the worldwide simultaneous release of the first film The Fellowship Of The Ring on Dec 14, 2001.
Xoanon note: If New Line decides to go for that worldwide release of FOTR we can have history in the making here folks. Can you image all those drooling rabid LOTR fanboys from Japan to Jamaica, Montreal to Moscow, all watching FOTR on the same day!?
Karl Urban, the man playing Eomer, is at the Cannes Film Festival at the moment. He’s in two New Zealand films that are being screened there, ‘The Price of Milk’ and ‘The Irrefutable Truth about Demons.’
Thanks to Kimi for that news.
Hello again all! Gamgee again, with yet another fine edition of the Tolkien Fun section! Our last winner was Morden! Good job buddy! The answers were:
1) Findaráto
2) Nauglamír
3) Snaga
Here are the questions for today:
1) “How many teeth does Gollum have?”
2) “ieaoedslhkn” (scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “String, or nothing!” (Who said this?)
As always, Mail me with your answers, the 1st person to send all 3 correct answers will be posted here next time!…Gamgee
Super Ringer Spy Galadriel gives us even more info on all of the latest on a Lord of the Rings set! Aragorn and Gandalf, Helms Deep and Ents! We’re finally hearing news on the Ents!! [More]