To listen to this audio June 2000 update on the LOTR movie news, click here. The following is a transcript of the audio:
Greetings and well met!
This is Calisuri, coming to you live from the official headquarters of TheOneRing.net, Middle-earth.
Stay tuned for this edition of the Lord of the Rings Movie Brief for June 2000.
It’s been another productive month in New Zealand! New filming locations continue to crop up like mushrooms. Among some of the more noteable, we have seen action at the Fernside Lodge, near Featherston. We believe this could be Lothlorien.
Lyall Bay has seen the rise of quote “white medieval tents, with green detailing,” close to a cliff face; Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) was rumored to be seen here, with a large variety of horses… could it be Dunharrow?
Something rather large is happening at the Claireville Showgrounds in Carterton. A recent report has large moving trucks, camera equipement and other movie making materials moving into this large scale stadium.
The Helms Deep set at Dry Creek Quary has also seen more action , with orc, human, and elvish armies doing battle. It is rumored that the Uruk-Hai at this set wear wear ‘black leather-like breastplates and shoulder pads… full length arm coverings… and crested helmets’.
It is also thought that a Minas Tirith set will also be built at Dry Creek Quary.
The Mordor location on Mt. Ruapehu near Iwikau Village has seen a huge cast, crew, and bluescreen hard at work; with elf, human, and orc armies fighting here this could be a location from the early history of Middle-earth, the Last Alliance of Men and Elves.
If you’re a regular consumer of Lord of the Rings news you’ve been treated to some incredible glimpses of what’s to come. We have seen Sir Ian Holm decked out as Bilbo Baggins, a beautiful shot of Hobbiton, and a pack of Nazgul chasing down a lone horse and rider. We were also lucky enough to see John Rhys-Davies in full costume as Gimli, shots of Frodo and Gandalf together in a cart, and a fierce-looking Aragorn!
New Zealand’s Women’s Week continues to produce incredible snapshots of the production: a recent spread included Frodo (Elijah Woods) and Sam (Sean Astin) working closely with director Peter Jackson and some of the crew.
Come down to TheOneRing.net for daily updates on Tolkien and Lord of the Rings movie news! Check out our scrapbook for images galore, our archives sections for past news, and our chatroom Barliman’s for the latest scuttlebut on the filming.
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HuanCry alerts us to a new book available for pre-order at Amazon.co.uk! [shop]
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TOR.net correspondent Frunk asked a friend of his who’s a world authority on rock music about the Beatles/LOTR project, and got this in reply:
“They wanted Twiggy to be Galadriel!
Yup! This was on the cards at one time…1968… They were looking to make their third movie (“A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help!” being one and two). They approached David Lean who was busy on other projects and then Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick hadn’t read the books, so Dennis O’Dell (head of Apple Films) sent him round copies. He wasn’t interested but suggested Michaelangelo Antonioni.
Apple Films then asked Tolkein for the rights only to be told they’d been sold to United Artists – days before. As this was being talked about at the time, UA obviously knew and as they were the distributors for “Yellow Submarine” saw another great potential.
UA were prepared to let The Beatles have the rights but the whole thing fell apart. According to Macca, Paul Gallico wrote several treatments but he also said he didn’t like the idea because John wanted to be Frodo. Not true – John wanted to be Gollum (as you said). Also, Macca was the one in control of Apple at the time so we can reasonably assume Paul just wasn’t too keen. And – it was around that time that Paul was talking to Richard Lester (who filmed AHDN) about The Fabs starring in The Three Musketeers which Lester went on to make 5 years later!
One last Beatle/LOTR thing: There are some pix of George supposedly wearing a wizard’s costume – pointy cap and white top with a moon on the front. Although these are said to come from rehearsals for LOTR, they actually come from a 1964 show called Around The Beatles where they did a small extract from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
This news comes to you courtesy of the Rockmine – well worth checking out for info like this!
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The Mighty Orc-Hunter who was watching filming up on Ruapehu last month invites us to check out his pics of what they found. It kind of looks like when people dig up Viking burial mounds and pull out a scrap of woven stuff and reconstruct the whole kilt and kit from it….(more)
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Check out TBHL and Barlimans for a live chat event with Pete O’Herne and Craig Smith of Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste fame! Check out the TBHL chatroom in Barlimans at 7pm EDT (12 midnight GMT)
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